The other thing about journalism is that it’s not academic researching and writing. We pick a topic and we do interviews and we write about it immediately. We don’t have the luxury of months on end researching one topic — it wouldn’t be news, it would be academic research and writing.

Journalism is definitely one of the reasons certain norms are maintained, because we can’t explore things so in depth as to unearth serious flaws in our society, but it just is what it is.

But why not? I think this is something that could be researched or investigated. Why not look more deeply into this issue? Why not see if these restaurants are visited more often by inspectors, if inspectors are more strident in their inspections of some restaurants, or if fines and citations are more readily given out to certain restaurants?

In my opinion, stating "facts" that there are more reported violations in one area than in another, without even acknowledging that there might be other reasons which would cause those figures to be skewed IS biased reporting. I say this as a white academic who spent several years researching and writing about Indian film and youth culture. Sometimes what you don’t say is just as important as what you do.