M.D. Kittle writes for the Federalist about the latest example of media malfeasance.

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A leftist “news” reporter walks into a conservative event and omits some key details in a hit piece attacking President Donald Trump and his supporters. 

Even for New York Magazine, one of the bigger jokes in American journalism, the fact-fractured story headlined, “The Cruel Kids’ Table,” is a lesson in the excesses of the Pravda press. 

The hit job, written by the mag’s feature reporter Brock Colyar, is supposed to be a first-person account of inauguration weekend parties filled with “young, confident, and casually cruel Trumpers who, after conquering Washington, have their sights set on America.” It’s the same tired — and false — screed portraying the MAGA movement as privileged rednecks, even as the piece laments “just how big” the Republican Party’s tent has become.

It’s another bitchy liberal narrative brimming with bitterness and angst, written by a DEI journalist whose “gender identity is not that clear” —  as the dress-wearing Colyar, “assigned male at birth,” wrote in another first-person account about pronouns.  

“From an aesthetic standpoint, this new class of conservatives is willing to top off a perfectly stylish outfit with a MAGA hat, which now comes in lots of colors: red, yes, but also yellow, green, orange, or black, the ‘dark MAGA’ kind that Elon Musk wears,” the propaganda piece asserts. “Almost everyone is white.The men look like Pete Hegseth, in bow ties and black suits, with clean-shaven faces.”

But it turns out, New York Magazine had to clip the picture to make the narrative fit. The feature photo for the piece cropped out a number of black people in the shot at the Power 30 Awards, a  TikTok-sponsored party for conservative influencers the evening before Inauguration Day. 

“New York Magazine literally cropped all the black people out of this cover photo and then complained that ‘the entire room is white,’” event attendee Christopher Barnard, president of the American Conservation Coalition, posted on X.