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Because reporters and papers have biases.

Here’s a simple one: Last year, when anti-asian crimes were on the rise, the NYTimes dutifully reported the crimes.

But repeatedly omitted details like ethnicity or name, until a white attacker made the news.

For those earlier details, the rag the NY Post (conservative and borderline tabloid) was the paper to go to.

Eventually—as in many months after—the NY Times stated covering the full details because the problem was too obvious. Even then the Ny Times uses every opportunity to downplay the issue.

I’m sure conservative journalists are just as biased in their own way.




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