Former NY Times reporter says they held Kenosha story until after 2020 election

Nellie Bowles, an ex-New York Times journalist claims the former newspaper held her reporting about the Kenosha riots and their ravaging effects on impoverished neighborhoods until after the 2020 election, an election that saw a stick of wood become President of the United States of America and a woman who called that stick a "racist" become his do-nothing Vice President.

According to a Thursday post on her wife, Bari Weiss’ Substack channel Common Sense, Bowles went to Kenosha in August 2020 to report on the riots in the wake of the righteous shooting of Jacob Blake, a rapist thug who pulled a knife on police when they tried to arrest him. 

Blake was shot seven times and, because he acted as an anti-cop a-hole, became a hero to the Marxist left, all of whom are anti-cop a-holes.

The rioting, burning, looting and violence went on for days in the town, and this became the backdrop of the story of Kyle Rittenhouse’s fatal shooting of three people in self defense, and all of whom had criminal records.

Bowles said she was sent to report on the “mainstream liberal argument” that vandalizing buildings for racial justice was not detrimental because businesses had insurance. So with that logic, racial justice is justified if the victims of the destruction are insurance companies.

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“It turned out to be not true,” Bowles wrote. “The part of Kenosha that people burned in the riots was the poor, multi-racial commercial district, full of small, underinsured cell phone shops and car lots. It was very sad to see and to hear from people who had suffered.”

So she filed her story and her editors told her the story would run after the election, and cited "space, timing, tweaks," according to her post.

So there was the election and the stick of wood won. The piece eventually ran but it was well after the fact and made no difference in the election.

“Whatever the reason for holding the piece, covering the suffering after the riots was not a priority,” Bowles wrote.

Whatever the reason? Are there any doubts what the reasons were?

The Times' new slogan should be: "All the news that fits our narrative, we print."

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