News organizations are belatedly "raising questions" about the police response at Robb Elementary School, now that it appears we were all wildly misled.
Reporters are getting the gun control story all wrong. It's not about Democrats vs. Republicans. It's about whether Republicans can put politics aside in the name of the little boys and girls of Uvalde and Newtown and whichever town is next.
The Times has lost its bearings when it comes to political coverage -- at the worst possible time. The new editor, Joe Kahn, will need to betray his predecessor to put it back on course.
The concept of the intentional replacement of white people by nonwhite people, in any form, is a racist conspiracy theory that should be abhorrent to everyone.
Reporters have blamed "intelligence failures" and "unique breakdowns" in communication, when the obvious reason law enforcement leaders didn't mobilize was racism and Trumpism.
There are times, especially at war, when things we believe at the time turn out to be wrong. The press's role should be to aggressively question every governmental act that leads to death and destruction, even if the intent seems noble.
