While I applaud the author's efforts to bring to light the NYT's policy of doxing, as well as their asymmetric coverage in the 2016 US election, I think this wo

While I applaud the author's efforts to bring to light the NYT's policy of doxing, as well as their asymmetric coverage in the 2016 US election, I think this word frequency figure fails to illustrate (and somewhat undermines) the intended message (i.e.: sensationalist news media). That the NYT writes more stories in 2018 about e.g. gay rights or sexism or oppressed classes than they did in 1970 more likely represents progress. While these problems always existed, they were often dismissed by journos, politicos, academics, and society by-and-large. Acknowledging that these issues exists is progress, and if anything I think that these graphs show that progress is slow, but steady. Again, sympathetic to the overall message @arram is expressing, but this graph is an exceptionally poor way to show it imho.