Why Is the NYT Such an Ardently Protectionist Newspaper?

Readers of the NYT must have been appalled to see that the only opinions presented in an article on a Brazilian plan to promote trade in physicians services were doctors who could expect to see lower pay as a result. This would be like reporting on a plan to reduce tariffs on imported textiles and only presenting the views of textile workers.

It would have been rather surprising if Brazil's doctors did not oppose a plan that would reduce their wages so it is not clear why the NYT apparently c...