How the media fell for a racism sham

They did not "fall" for the sham - they were willing participants, and are only upset because their collaboration via negligence was exposed.

How many stories did the NY Times, WaPo, NPR, CNN and other "venerable" media institutions get so badly wrong in the other direction? Or not even wrong, just truthfully and extensively reporting on some crime or abuse perpetrated by non-whites against whites? And blaming it on anti-white racism?

E.g. the recent shooting of a 6-year old white girl and her parents, after a basketball rolled into their black neighbor's yard [1], got only a brief mention in one opinion piece in the Times (the gist being we should blame guns, not race), while Ralph Yarl got at least nine separate articles.

It seems that which incidents become part of the national conversation on racism, and which are just "random", is heavily filtered. Seeing this filter, how much should we still trust them?

[1] https://breaking911.com/6-year-old-girl-2-adults-shot-after-...

I will also say that while in my experience BYU might be super-racist, they are not going to say or do any of that stuff - although my experience is also admittedly 25 years out of date.

Note the date on this is last september, shortly after the alleged incident.

5 soccer players from a different school came out shortly afterwards claiming that they'd heard similar slurs:

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/sep/30/byu-racism-all...

Not sure if anything further has been reported in the last 6 months.