Former New York Times contributor Nellie Bowles' has relayed a disturbing account of an incident at America's 'paper of record' concerning coverage of the riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin following the August 2020 police shooting of Jacob Blake - where during just one evening of 'protests,' the Kenosha Fire Department responded to 37 fires, multiple shootings, assaults, and other acts of vandalism.

In her "TGIF" newsletter (which can be read at Bari Weiss' substack here), Bowles explains how she traveled to Kenosha to cover the riots - and in particular to see whether the prevailing Democratic narrative that the destruction was "both good and healthy" for promoting racial justice was true (it wasn't).

After writing a sobering take on how the riots devastated small businesses - many owned by minorities who would have little chance of recovering, the Times refused to publish it until after the 2020 US election. In fact, they ran it less than a week later.

Perhaps her coverage was a bit too... damning?