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What Happened When a New York Times Reporter Saw 2020 Revolution, Firsthand

A man who wished to remain anonymous is pictured wearing a raccoon mask in an area being called the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) located around streets reopened to pedestrians after the Seattle Police Department's East Precinct was vacated in Seattle, Washington on June 12, 2020. (Photo: Jason Redmond / AFP/Getty Images)

Nellie Bowles is an old-fashioned journalist, the type who wants to actually experience for herself the events she reports on.

In her new book, “Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History,” Bowles chronicles going to Seattle’s Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, where anarchy reigned during the summer of 2020. She attends anti-racism trainings. She writes about what it was like to be a reporter for the New York Times who was trying to be a good journalist, and how she was forced to consult a “disinformation expert” to change her reporting.

Bowles, a lesbian and a former Hillary Clinton booster, also chronicles her own evolution as she reports. Listen to our full interview on “The Daily Signal Podcast”:

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