It remains crazy to me that so many national outlets hand off coverage of white extremists to random reporters, rather than making it a dedicated beat. Latest example: nytimes.com/2017/11/25/us/…
This approach ends up with exactly what you see in this NYT story, and what we’ve seen since 2016 in coverage of the far right: dangerous movements that should be covered seriously treated as harmless novelties.
The NYT has a great team devoted to ISIS and al Qaeda coverage. Why not do the same for white extremist groups in the US? After Charlottesville, no question that they’re newsworthy.
Now the NYT has changed the “Nazi sympathizer next door” headline to this 
Amazingly, the author of the NYT’s soft focus white supremacist profile ran another story admitting the first story didn’t turn out well mobile.nytimes.com/2017/11/25/ins…
The NYT white supremacist story gets worse with every reading
