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Margaret Sullivan, in a critique of the #NYT's dangerous embrace of false equivalence in its articles about #Trump and #Harris, quotes former marine, Ben Kesling, who writes this about the media coverage of Trump's criminal activity at #ArlingtonNationalCemetery :

It came off, he wrote, “like a bureaucratic mix-up or some tedious violation of protocol,” not a deeply disrespectful moral failure, which it surely was. “The sacred had been profaned.”

https://margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/an-ugly-case-of-false-balance-in