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As a subscriber who is usually quite happy with The Guardian’s coverage, I was distressed at the perniciously structured article “Democrat Jamaal Bowman pulled fire alarm on Capitol Hill before House vote” (link). In this article in which a Black man is accused of a crime, we hear his actions described by five people who are not him — all of them his political opponents, and all of them white — before we hear even a single word of his own account of what happened. Compare this article from The Hill, whose reporting I would not typically compare favorably to The Guardian’s: link The Hill manages to say up front that Bowman says it was an accident involving a closed door. The Guardian, on the other hand, first lets us hear that it was a near-riot, a delay tactic, a felony, an attempt to shut down the government — all apparently false — before we get Bowman’s actual story.