In a piece titled “The Biden administration will use a federal civil rights office to deter states from banning masks in classrooms,” the New York Times reports that:
As careful readers will observe, both the headline and the lead paragraph within this story contain fatally misleading descriptions of what the “Republican governors” in question have actually done. The states on the Times’s naughty list are Arizona, Iowa, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Florida, and Texas. But not one of those states has “banned masks in classrooms,” as the Times’s headline erroneously claims. Rather, they have all elected to leave the decision to mask children with parents rather than school boards. When, as he did during his speech yesterday, President Biden claimed that “some politicians” have taken “power away from local educators by banning masks in schools,” he was lying. As America’s self-appointed “newspaper of record,” the Times had a responsibility to note that.
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