New York Magazine
New York Magazine Rated Left in Jan. 2025 Independent Review
A Jan. 2025 Independent Review by an AllSides reviewer found strong left bias in New York Magazine. For example, the cover story, "The Cruel Kids' Table," which stated, "Among the young, confident, and casually cruel Trumpers who, after conquering Washington, have their sights set on America." By calling Trump supporters "cruel," New York displayed a subjective qualifying adjectives. New York Magazine showed a clear Left bias in story choice — one article called Trump's pardons "distracting;" another was titled, "Trump's Sneaky Opening Attack on Abortion Rights."
Cover stories in late 2024, around the time of Trump's election, typically had an anti-Trump bent and a bent against his adminstration. A piece about the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement was seen as analytical and containing subjective descriptions, though not overly negative; however, it was slanted against claims that flouride in water and seed oils are harmful, though it took a more sympathetic approach to concerns about food dyes. It did contain numerous source omissions, such as (emphasis ours): "RFK Jr. has also suggested that microplastics might have contributed to “gender confusion” among kids via endocrine disruptors, which scientists say is completely unfounded," and stating, "Most research has shown the opposite: The unsaturated fat commonly found in seed oils has been linked to lower risk of cardiovascular disease and cancer. Beef tallow, on the other hand, is primarily made up of saturated fat, which studies have shown increases the risk of cardiovascular disease." New York Magazine did not link to the studies or "most research."
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The kids are safe. They always have been.
It may sound strange, given a year of panic over school closures and reopenings, a year of masking toddlers and closing playgrounds and huddling in pandemic pods, that among children the mortality risk from COVID-19 is actually lower than from the flu. The risk of severe disease or hospitalization is about the same.
This is true for the much-worried-over Delta variant. It is also true for all the other variants, and for the original strain. Most remarkably, it has been known to be true since the very earliest days of the pandemic — indeed it was among the very first things we did know about the disease. The preliminary mortality data from China was very clear: To children, COVID-19 represented only a vanishingly tiny threat of death, hospitalization, or severe disease.