I'm sure that's part of it but I've also directly observed their bias towards fear exaggeration at times. Claiming certain things are happening in a neighborhood I visit frequently and unable to confirm anything they are stating. They can lean right all they want, but political leaning shouldn't be an excuse to gloss over reasonable journalism.

Ha, one way to put it is "hyper liberal shenanigans", the other way to put it is, "Presenting only one side of a highly complex situation requiring nuance".

As an example in this case, when you look at other articles, plus the comments of the students themselves, it seems as though it's more than just "the class was too hard", it was that this teacher was largely uninterested in consistency and clear rules and requirements, and that he repeatedly refused to take feedback and make adjustments.

But that doesn't fit the "stop lowering the bar" narrative in the post, so the Post just avoids putting that in there.

How do you know the students did not put in the work? Were any students interviewed for the Post's coverage (https://nypost.com/2022/10/04/nyu-professor-allegedly-fired-...)? Were previous classes compared? How did Jones' course evaluations compare with other instructors teaching the same course? Was there anything different about the spring 2022 semester?

The NY Post can lean whichever way it likes, but journalism does have some standards.

No, it's because 90% of the NYPost stories have a source of "This guy I met made something up and it might be true"

Leans to the right? Try "rushes headlong" and it's well known outside of NYC too. I was actually with the author until they brought up critical race theory. There's a lot of debate to be had about whether the fault here should lie with the professor or the students. My general opinion is that if everyone is doing poorly it's the professor's fault, and after reading the Reddit thread I see nothing to justify an exception here. And none of this has anything to do with critical race theory or any other right wing dog-whistle. Also, since when did right-wingers care about higher education? I suspect most of them are cheering the reputational damage to NYU. The false shows of concern about the future of higher ed are just about as transparent as it's possible for them to be.