Target stores across America were evacuated over the weekend due to bomb threats that alleged the chain had “betrayed the LGBTQ+ community” and “bowed to the wishes of far-right extremists who want to exterminate us,” according to police. But that’s not how some major news outlets presented the story.

The Washington Post, USA Today, and others buried or simply left out the nature of the emailed threats, all of which were false alarms, while prominently mentioning conservative backlash over Target’s LGBT Pride merchandise. Who wrote it worst?

[I’d call this a multiple tie for the Walter Duranty Journalisming Award. They want to promote a narrative that opposition to transgender ideology is extreme rather than revealing that the ideology itself is extreme, and also its adherents. — Ed]