If there is one thing news consumers must understand, it is that liberal legacy media outlets have made it a focus in recent years to promote racialized thinking and racial division in their “reporting.”

This is once again being put on display in the New York City subway death of Jordan Neely, a man who had been arrested over 40 times and had an active arrest warrant out for felony assault. Neely, who has been known as a dangerous rider on the subway system going back to at least 2013, had been threatening passengers on the subway and was restrained by passengers, including by a Marine who put him in a chokehold.

The story became news among establishment media outlets that like to ignore subway crime because the Marine was white and Neely was black. Those outlets have been starving for another Black Lives Matter narrative to cling to, and it has been far too long since there has been a debatable police encounter that they could exploit, so this story became yet another example of white supremacy and of black men being hunted for sport in America — or something.

This manipulation is part of a larger problem in establishment media. Starting around 2014, when Michael Brown was shot in Ferguson, Missouri, in the act of attacking a police officer and trying to grab his gun during a scuffle, the use of “racist” or “racism” by the Washington Post and the New York Times skyrocketed . Establishment media began what looked like a conscious and even perhaps a coordinated effort to turn any encounter, from police saving people from being stabbed to a verbal dispute between two people in a park, into a racist encounter that showed the United States was an irredeemable collection of racists.

As a result of this propaganda campaign, race relations have deteriorated significantly. According to Gallup , 72% of white people and 66% of black people believed that race relations were very or somewhat good in 2013, numbers that had remained steady going back to 2001. Those numbers subsequently plummeted, falling to 51% of white people and 45% of black people saying race relations were good in 2015 to 43% of white people and 33% of black people in 2021.

Racial hoaxes, including Jussie Smollett’s staged hate crime, Bubba Wallace’s fake NASCAR noose, and a Duke volleyball player's fabrication of racial slurs supposedly shouted at Brigham Young University, blossomed as establishment media dutifully promoted all of them. Whether the journalists in question are liberal ideologues viewing everything as an affirmation of their worldview or they are simply doing this because racism brings in clicks or views, the result is the same. They are promoting racial division because they benefit from them.

Every single story on racism coming from the New York Times, the Washington Post, or liberal broadcast news should be viewed through a skeptical lens. The “journalists” at these outlets have no incentive to tell you that something was not racist and every incentive to encourage you to view and judge your fellow man based only upon his skin color. Racial division is now the crux of their media coverage. It has changed how they work, but you shouldn’t let it change how you live.