More bad behavior from the New York Times

More good stuff from Tony Heller, catching the Times in a lie, and an inability to set the record straight. And an update, 7 June 2021, about how the Biden administration starts the history of American forest fire acreage in 1983, ignoring 100 years of previous history.

First, the original and then the 'corrected' text. The Times changed the text without noting the correction or the original error. First, the original:

Then the substituted text, adding a spurious climate change charge, without apologizing for the gross error in the first version:

Why "before"? What does "since before" even mean? Journalists like to claim that 'democracy dies in darkness.' More accurate to say that democracy is dying in the newsroom, and journalists a re killing it. Investigative reporting is an American ideal. Disingenuously mis-reporting is a moral, ethical and factual violation of the public trust.