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... While pointing readers to her previous work at the Times, (Bowles)specifically listed and linked a few articles covering the impact of last summer’s riots on small businesses. (The stories can be found here, here, and here.) She didn’t say any more about that topic at the time, but since she was bringing it up only weeks after she quit her job at the newspaper, perhaps we should have guessed there was more to the story. Now we know there was. Bowles is back and she’s describing how she wrote an article covering the riots in Kenosha last August and the impact they had on local businesses. But to her surprise and apparent suspicion, her editors informed her that the story wouldn’t run until after the election. (NY Post)QuoteNellie Bowles went to the Wisconsin city to report on the racial justice riots in the wake of the police shooting of Jacob Blake in August 2020, according to a Thursday post on partner Bari Weiss’ Substack channel Common Sense…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.“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.”.... Bowles wasn’t just sent to Kenosha to cover the riots. She was sent to report on “the ‘mainstream liberal argument’ that vandalizing buildings for racial justice was not detrimental…”Apparently, the people in charge at the newsroom failed to mention that any reporting on that argument would only be “fit to print” if it agreed with the premise of the editors. When Bowles discovered that the argument was untrue and that both businesses and residents were suffering as a result of the riots, she reported those observations. But upon submitting the article, Bowles was informed that it would not be run until after the election. The reason given was that the delay was being caused by “space, timing, tweaks.”That was in August. The election wasn’t going to take place until more than two months later. But you’ll notice that her editors didn’t say that the article would run when they had more space (and who worries about space in the digital era?) or when the “tweaks” were finished. The only thing holding up the publication of her work was obviously the “timing.” And that timing meant that an article shooting holes in a liberal talking point in the heat of the final weeks of a presidential election simply wouldn’t do.
Nellie Bowles went to the Wisconsin city to report on the racial justice riots in the wake of the police shooting of Jacob Blake in August 2020, according to a Thursday post on partner Bari Weiss’ Substack channel Common Sense…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.“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.”
