It’s hard to find words after yet another brutal police killing of a Black person, this time of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols in Memphis, Tennessee, captured in horrifying detail on video footage released last week. Yet that’s exactly what the New York Times did in recent coverage. Folks on Twitter (1/28/23) and elsewhere called out the New York Times for this embarrassing “Black people encounter police and somehow end up dead” business, but the paper is apparently happy with it. Three days later, he died.”Journalism school tells you that fewer, more direct words are better. ACTION ALERT: You can send a message to the New York Times at letters@nytimes.com (Twitter: @NYTimes).

Source: New York Times February 03, 2023 10:17 UTC