Times as Propaganda Machine?

In today’s Times (in the Styles section, of course), Pamela Paul discusses Doulas. She is sure to document the problems that can arise when a doula is not a good fit for the woman or the situation in which the woman chooses to labor and deliver (hospital, home, birthing center — though the article acts as if hospital birth is the one and only option). But somehow, whoops!, Paul just darn forgot to include a single woman who was happy with her doula and who gave birth in any sort of alternate setting. And – whoops! – she “accidentally” only provides anecdotes of the stereotypically rigid, unyielding, irrational lactation consultants and doulas that any Joel Stein column on the topic would present. It’s the kind out out-dated one-sided garbage that the Times — yes, even the Styles section — should know and do better than to publish.