Off the front page entirely
Apparently the NY Times doesn’t pay much attention to the California fires.
This “historic” spate of California wildfires have so far displaced hundreds of thousands during a pandemic, killed seven, destroyed at least tens of thousands of structures, burned through the equivalent acreage of a small state and sent plumes of smoke over several regions, forcing millions indoors during a heat wave.
Yet the country’s paper of record – the New York Times – seems unwilling to feature this incredibly newsworthy disaster that has affected millions of Americans prominently on its pages.
It is a big country, a big unwieldy country, but all the same.
… when the Washington Post dedicates its lead, above-the-fold front page image to the wildfires and the New York Times chooses to run an image of a water park party in Wuhan, China? Well, that’s a choice, to say the least.
I guess the Times is a little Caliphobic.
Is the owner of the NYT a chum of the chump?
No, but the people at the Times are hell-bent on being seen as impartial…and some people argue that Maggie Haberman is a chum of the chump.