This is not surprising, even very common. The media can easily guide the direction of public opinion. After all, there are not many people who think independent

This is not surprising, even very common. The media can easily guide the direction of public opinion. After all, there are not many people who think independently (Fortunately, most of the people on the HN were able to make their own judgments). Look at these two tweets from NYT, just separated by 20 minutes: [1] https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1236484352965521408 https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1236484352965521408 [2] https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1236479276586807296 https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1236479276586807296 I mean the events happened are similar, but the point of reporting is totally different.