US newspaper tries to defend reporting along the lines of that used to justify eugenics, sexism/misogyny, racism/white supremacism

This will be in this weeks news post, but I consider it too important to not draw attention to it: 

a major US newspaper has discredited itself by trying to argue that reporting along the lines of that used to justify eugenics, sexism/misogyny, racism/white supremacism was defensible (TG) - see also this (SF Gate);