A New Low: Bigoted Reporters at NYT and NPR Repeat Phony Story About ‘Unmarked Graves’ In Canada

Mainstream corporate journalist bigots: Jenn White (1A, NPR),
David Folkenflik of NPR, and Alissa Wilkinson of the NY Times

It is a completely phony claim that refuses to die simply because it's about the hated Catholic Church.

In 2021, corporate media across the world tripped all over themselves to report a white-hot story that Catholic-operated schools for indigenous children in Canada had years ago dumped hundreds of dead children into "unmarked graves." So worked up by all of the media frenzy, people even torched and vandalized dozens of Catholic churches across Canada, which the media then tacitly acknowledged was somehow justified.

However, it soon surfaced that there was zero evidence of any such unmarked graves. None at all. The story was totally false. One Canadian professor even proclaimed that these phony tales of unmarked graves were "the biggest fake news story in Canadian history."

Cue the usual effete haters at National Public Radio (NPR) and the New York Times who are now quite unbelievably promoting a new documentary film called Sugarcane, an angry screed about the long-defunct indigenous schools in Canada and, in doing so, are again perpetuating the bigoted "unmarked graves" hoax.

A few snippets from the rogue's gallery of political activists posing as journalists as they peddle outright disinformation:

- On a radio show called 1A, which airs on NPR, host Jenn White began her episode about Sugarcane by claiming, "In May of 2021, archeologists discovered more than 200 unmarked graves at an indigenous residential school in British Columbia, Canada." False.

- On a weekend segment on NPR, "media critic" David Folkenflik broached the story of "unmarked graves" with Sugarcane's filmmakers, who then rehashed the bogus "announcement" of the graves in 2021 while Folkenflik stood silent.

- In a glowing review of Sugarcane, New York Times critic Alissa Wilkinson wrote that "unmarked graves were found on the grounds of a number of Indigenous Canadian residential schools." False.

To be precise: Exactly zero "unmarked graves" have been found at indigenous schools in Canada. None at all. There are no "missing children." The entire story is a hoax, and its purpose is simply to defame the Catholic Church.

If there is one hopeful sign in all of this it is that it only further evidences that the NYT and NPR as institutions have now gone fully rogue allowing the publishing of a phony story like this because it plays to its readership and drives revenue. We might have arrived at the day where the reporting of establishment journalists like these three bigots is viewed by the public with the same level of skepticism as the meanderings of anonymous postings on Twitter.

For more reading:

- "In Kamloops, Not One Body Has Been Found" (The Dorchester Review, Jan. 11, 2022)

- "The year of the graves: How the world's media got it wrong on residential school graves" (National Post, May 26, 2022)

- "No evidence of 'mass graves' or 'genocide' in residential schools" (The Fraser Institute, Feb. 12, 2024)

- Grave Error: How The Media Misled Us (and the Truth about Residential Schools) (Amazon.com)

- Previously at TheMediaReport.com: "Another Anti-Catholic Media Hoax Exposed: News of 'Unmarked Graves' In Canada Revealed As a Fraud" (June 6, 2022)

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Want to learn about the rampancy of false accusations against priests?:
- "The Great Shakedown Keeps A-Rollin': Phony Claims Continue at Epic Pace, Here Are The Facts" (January 2024)
- The Greatest Fraud Never Told: False Accusations, Phony Grand Jury Reports, and the Assault on the Catholic Church (Amazon.com)