Another example of an objection to objectivity, according to communication scholar David Mindich, was the coverage that the major papers (most notably the "New York Times") gave to the lynching of thousands of African Americans during the 1890s. News stories of the period described the hanging, immolation and mutilation of people by mobs with detachment and, through the regimen of objectivity, news writers often attempted to construct a "false balance" of these accounts by recounting the alleged transgressions of the victims that provoked the lynch mobs to fury. Mindich suggests that by enabling practices of objectivity and allowing them to " basically unquestioned", it may have had the effect of normalizing the practice of lynching.