The Double Standard on Race at The New York Times
This is probably not news for anyone who regularly looks at reporting standards at the New York Times, but Manhattan Institute Scholar Heather MacDonald puts the paper’s double standard regarding its coverage of crime and crime related stories in stark relief. Her piece in the City Journal notes the way the Times reported last month’s police crackdown of the riot-like rampage of mostly black spring breakers at Miami Beach was to characterize the shootings, street brawls and property damage as “by and large, nonviolent.” The Times went on to report that the only reason the police were confiscating guns and arresting the revelers is because most of them were black. It was racial bias. Responding to this claim, Miami’s Mayor, a Democrat, told the Times “we do not target race, we targeted conduct.”