Contrast that with
Times coverage of George Floyd’s death, beginning in April 2020. Four articles followed in May, focusing on the arrest of police officer Derek Chauvin, whose knee on Floyd’s neck for nine minutes had caused his death. There were four more articles in May, seven in June including an editorial, four in July, one in August, one in September, and another in December. The overriding theme was white racism and police brutality. On the front page on April 21, four reporters contributed articles spanning six columns that focused on the jury’s guilty verdict.
Compare overflowing
Times coverage of the Chauvin trial with its reporting on Israel’s trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, captured in Argentina in May 1960. Since Eichmann’s crimes “were committed against humanity … not in Israel but in Europe,” editors claimed that Germany, not Israel, was the proper place for his trial. Eichmann, according to the