Funny because the NYT was the lead offender on this, a fact strangely missing from this pieceNew York and its suburbs are among the safest large communities in the U.S. But amid a torrent of doomsday-style ads and headlines about rising crime, suburban swing voters helped drive a Republican rout that played a decisive role in capturing the House. https://t.co/tB9yLyKNav
— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 27, 2022
Election's over, time to revisit the weird epidemic of crime coverage. How did that happen? Wasn't us!
It isn't necessarily the case that local media should embrace the role of local booster, but it's a bit odd to promote the perspective that their city is a shithole murder hell.
That's fairly normal for local broadcast news in smaller cities, but their audiences are generally suburbanites who love to hear scary tales about Them in the urban hellholes.
A bit odd from The New York Times. Just objective science, I guess, as always.