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Last month’s Atlanta shooting spree that killed eight people helped out the left-wing media. Six victims were Asian, which let news organizations stoke alarm about white racism. If you squint hard enough, set aside the two victims who weren’t Asian, and ignore the perpetrator’s psychosis about sexual addiction, you can resell the shopworn trope about simple Trumpian intolerance.

This had been tricky when anti-Asian violence rose up the news agenda after New Year and videos repeatedly showed black thugs assaulting frail and elderly Asian victims. Keeping this key fact from viewers was straining the ingenuity of reporters, whose training is to assume that victims of racism are darker-skinned than their persecutors, not the other way around.

We reached a tragi-comic point in mid-February when ABC News reported a string of incidents, backed by video, yet left actor-producer Daniel Dae Kim unchallenged when he opined, “It is not one community against another, it’s everyone versus racism.”

But as everyone knows and honest people acknowledge, racism is not the preserve of only one race, however forcefully woke warriors squeak their countervailing prejudice. Some of them, when reluctantly acknowledging preponderantly black violence against Asians, claim that even this is really about white supremacy.

It is not only on matters of criminal violence that news media conceal facts to maintain an agreed narrative — that is, spread propaganda. It’s also true of reporting on the massive surge of illegal immigrants crashing through the U.S. border with Mexico since President Joe Biden’s election. The administration insists this isn’t a crisis, and the poodle media swing alongside Biden’s minions to battle inconvenient truth. The AP even instructed its reporters not to use the word “crisis,” which was a gag it didn’t impose when the numbers were only half as bad during the peak surge under President Donald Trump.

To get you the truth, the Washington Examiner sent reporters Anna Giaritelli, Barnini Chakraborty, and Tori Richards to the border, in Texas, Arizona, and California, respectively, and they have returned with the facts for this week’s magazine, grouped under the cover headline “Biden’s Border Crisis.”

For it is a crisis; local U.S. citizens say so, and local security forces say so, no matter what twaddle and obfuscation emerge from White House press briefings. And it is Biden’s fault, as even the coyotes who smuggle migrants into America acknowledge; the president signaled to the Democratic Left during the election that he would be soft on illegal immigration, and Latin Americans (wearing Biden T-shirts and waving Biden 2020 flags) responded to the signal, too.

Whether it be on race or illegal immigration (or sexual politics, taxes, environmental policy, infrastructure, spending, federal government overreach) or any of a multitude of other issues, many media outlets have turned themselves into propaganda machines for left-wing governance. If you prefer to read the facts, delivered elegantly and thoughtfully, and you don’t want to be spoon-fed fictitious orthodoxies, we are confident you will enjoy the Washington Examiner.