I know I'm almost wilfully missing the point to say this, but it's pretty much common practice in reporting to say a given crime is at an "all-time" high without any statistical evidence. Gotta keep that suburban anxiety ramped up to justify those police budgets. It just so happened that it came back to bite them on this one.
Also, not even two decades?
I remember early in Covid when everything, every day was "setting a new record."
"Plano, TX set the record for most new infections. But New York City set the record for most deaths. But today, Sacramento set the record for largest per-capita increase over a 24 hour period. Meanwhile, Orlando set a new record for deaths for the age group 30-55."
It made absolutely no sense but it kept people glued to the screen. If a record is being shattered every day like yes I get things are going on, but maybe 'breaking the record' isn't the most valuable metric for understanding what's happening.
Yeah competing for peoples attention in commercial media is a race to the bottom, and social media engagement algorithms accelerate the problem.
Are they saying "no other allegation surfaced in the course of reporting" is amazing.
Yeah, there are lots of allegations, but none surfaced during the last ~24 hours when we were writing this story, so all is well.
that wasn't part of the correction, but it's still a bit weaselly. my memory of the context before that sentence is they are talking about the extent they went to to investigate, the scope of people they talked to etc.
EDIT: found the article https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/12/us/politics/joe-biden-tara-reade-sexual-assault-complaint.html
when they were asked why the change was made they nakedly said it was because the Biden campaign was uncomfortable, as if that was a good reason
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVhEyweWoAc2du_.jpg
Saw someone unironically say this is the most anti-Semitic period in history.
Highest level recorded... they really did not think that headline through. :no-fash:
i mean... its not really a crime when its fully state-sanctioned :bruh-moment:
