By: Kayleigh Hamilton

The New York Times has finally been held accountable for their ridiculous reporting.

They are trying to push gun control under the guise of “journalism.”

But one true journalist has exposed and thoroughly embarrassed them.

Journalism in America has gone from a neutral reporting of the facts to nothing more than a form of left-wing activism for ideological reporters.

People who go into journalism, or at least the ones who are able to score jobs with the big outlets, tend to be cosmopolitan types with extremely liberal worldviews.

This becomes especially clear when talking about something like guns.

Liberal reporters can feign neutrality on “boring” issues like tax policy or budgets. But when it comes to guns, these reporters are shocked and horrified that guns are so common in various parts of the country.

They think the government needs to do something about this quickly to make it stop. And that’s why papers like The New York Times will push questionable gun control stories.

Thankfully, one reporter named Jacob Sullum at Reason Magazine has exposed The New York Times for their outrageous “journalism” on gun issues.

Here is what Sullum had to say: “Like many other cities across the country, Columbus, Ohio, saw a spike in homicides during the COVID-19 pandemic. Even though that was a nationwide phenomenon, The New York Times, in a story that purports to explain ‘How Gun Violence Spread Across One American City,’ blames ‘loosened restrictions on firearms’ in Ohio.

“The implausibility of that explanation is immediately apparent because the story opens and closes with the June 2021 death of 43-year-old Jason Keys, who was killed during a bizarre dispute in Walnut Hill Park, ‘a leafy neighborhood’ of Columbus. Although Times reporters Shaila Dewan and Robert Gebeloff present that incident as emblematic of how weak gun control has helped make formerly safe Columbus neighborhoods newly dangerous, the details of this homicide plainly do not fit that theory.”

It becomes clear throughout the story that the laws The New York Times would like to see in place would not have actually stopped the crime.

They go on and on about the type of gun used in the shooting, but the same shooting would have taken place even if a different gun were used.

The New York Times then complains about the “Stand Your Ground” law, even though the person who committed the shooting wasn’t defending their own home and thus the law was irrelevant.

This shoddy reporting from The New York Times clearly wasn’t meant to be accurate or useful in any way.

It was supposed to push a narrative that when states expand gun rights for their citizens, terrible crimes happen and people die en masse.

This goes completely against all of the data that exists. The Times tried to say that Columbus’s crime wave was because of loosened gun control laws, when it was clearly because of COVID lockdowns.

The New York Times has finally been taken to task for trying to push false narratives in the service of the gun control lobby.