The underlying message of the article is that we are having more discussions about race because "white" newspaper control the narrative  A biased study that agrees with your bias is considered a great study. 
 

It is very easy to find studies with opposite conclusions. Case in point

The bottom line is that nonwhites tend to see racial discrimination a lot more than whites do. Take a look at these numbers: An overwhelming 87% of black Americans say black people face a lot of discrimination in the United States, but only 49% of white Americans say the same thing, according to a February poll from the Public Religion Research Institute. 

Meanwhile, six in 10 Americans (61%) said racism against blacks is widespread in the United States in a Gallup poll last August -- up from just 51% at the beginning of President Barack Obama's first term in 2009. But that includes a broad racial split: 82% of blacks vs. just 56% of whites.

And nonwhites take the topic a lot more seriously. A Quinnipiac University poll in March found 66% of nonwhites labeled prejudice a "very serious" problem, while only 39% of whites felt the same way. Meanwhile, one in four whites (25%) said it was not a serious problem and only one in 10 nonwhites (11%) felt the same way.

https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/16/politics/blacks-white-racism-united-states-polls/index.html

Just thought of something that always intrigued me, how much Thoreau basically distrusted zeitgeist and "news". Interesting precisely because he was not a fundamentalist in any way, it wasn't that he thought there were essential truths written down in some holy book. He would certainly not think much of the world today nor us news junkies who like to use all the bits and pieces of news in conjunction with big picture think pieces.

“If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident,” he wrote, “or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter – we never need read of another. One is enough."

The one contrary bit I have to offer here is that I have certainly noted a lot of writing about how coronavirus isolation and lockdown has offered a lot of people who never had the ability before to slow down and think about big pictures instead of bits and pieces. BUT then I've also seen a lot saying doing that has increased the incidence of depression!