I did my own search, and Bernstein's right (and so was David Borge back in 2013)
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THE AMERICAN PRAVDA: I had to go to an Australian news source to discover that the driver of the vehicle that sped into BLM protesters in Seattle is an African American. (Apologies if one of my colleagues at Instapundit covered this, I have been away for the holiday weekend.) I have to assume that American media outlets know this, and decided intentionally not to mention it to create the implication that this was a racist murder, rather than a guy driving recklessly on what he thought was an abandoned highway. I increasingly feel like I’m living somewhere akin to the former USSR, in terms of the way the media are dedicated to a particular narrative regardless of the facts. At least unlike in the USSR I can access alternative sources to our equivalent of Pravda.
LA Times, NYT, ABC, CBS, all silent. Interestingly, only NEWSONE, a black news site, updated its initial report to add the information that the driver was black. It posted that update Sunday morning at 7:15 AM; the mainstream outlets mentioned above were all datelined later than that so yes, they had the information and deliberately hid it.
Why does the race of the driver matter? Because it completely changes the narrative: the propagandists in charge know that, so hide it.
