All the outrage over being called “fake news” has not led the liberal media to a better journalistic job.
The latest mob attack against President Trump over a controversial family-separating immigration policy has revealed just how knee-jerk many reports and reactions are.
Associated Press newsman Michael Biesecker tweeted a “breaking” story Wednesday of abuses against children in a juvenile detention center in Virginia.
BREAKING @AP: Immigrant children as young as 14 housed at a juvenile detention center in Virginia say they were beaten while handcuffed and locked up for long periods in solitary confinement, left nude and shivering in concrete cells. https://t.co/ffw0bBcYrH
— Michael Biesecker (@mbieseck) June 21, 2018
But the real news was that the linked article was actually about a lawsuit against the Virginia shelter alleging abuses against the children – that happened under former President Obama’s watch.
Um…
…the facility opened in 2007.
And the primary allegations are from…2016.
A year BEFORE Trump became President.
Just pointing this out. https://t.co/Xc9LIfsNCG
— Pradheep J. Shanker, M.D., M.S. (@Neoavatara) June 21, 2018
“BREAKING” @mbieseck? pic.twitter.com/2n2KBYtdJu
— LB (@beyondreasdoubt) June 21, 2018
According to the AP report:
The complaint filed by the nonprofit Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs recounts the story of an unnamed 17-year-old Mexican citizen apprehended at the southern border. The teen fled an abusive father and violence fueled by drug cartels to seek asylum in the United States in 2015.
After stops at facilities in Texas and New York, he was transferred to Shenandoah in April 2016 and diagnosed during an initial screening by a psychologist with three mental disorders, including depression. Besides weekly sessions speaking with a counselor, the lawsuit alleges the teen has received no further mental health treatment, such as medications that might help regulate his moods and behavior.
Never mind that the dates listed for the alleged incidents all pre-date Trump. The truth hurts the narrative.
The report even cited a separate lawsuit from 2016 — during the Obama administration — in which a guard was fired for allegedly punching two children.
The “breaking” AP story seemed to mirror a similar AP article from last December, referring to the same lawsuit.
“BREAKING” @mbieseck? pic.twitter.com/2n2KBYtdJu
— LB (@beyondreasdoubt) June 21, 2018
As one Twitter user noted, “no one reads the articles” so the fact that the abuses did not just occur will be lost on those who only skim headlines – and have an anti-Trump bent.
Ugh more nonsense. Your article (left) makes it seem like it’s brand new; meanwhile there have already been hearings/conferences pic.twitter.com/rUO6XTaDRR
— LB (@beyondreasdoubt) June 21, 2018
This is why the media is the worst. This guy tweets this headline and of course it gets picked up. The allegations are horrific. However, no one reads the articles so it will be completely lost that it’s not something that just happened pic.twitter.com/yaMfZZVOVk
— LB (@beyondreasdoubt) June 21, 2018
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Blue-checks on Twitter were aghast at the Trump administration horrors – but not one, including so-called professional journalists – appeared to have read the actual article in which every date mentioned falls under Obama’s tenure.
This is what happens when your entire political narrative is grounded in the idea that some lives are worth more than others. It always led here, to brown kids in shackles.
This is America now. This is who we are. Don’t look away. https://t.co/lyJ504hZbR
— Derek Johnson (@derekjGZ) June 21, 2018
And of course, they’re torturing the kids too. https://t.co/99YPqCLhCt
— Noah Smith (@Noahpinion) June 21, 2018
This is not over by a longshot. https://t.co/1nd2NboquV
— Mark Frost (@mfrost11) June 21, 2018
It seems unlikely Kathy Griffin was properly directing her question to the former president.
What the fuck is going on?!? https://t.co/cCHliG7qWM
— Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin) June 21, 2018
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell compared the detention center to the Iraq War’s infamous Abu Ghraib prison.
The spirit of Abu Ghraib lives. In Virginia. https://t.co/zVo4ZT5KfF
— Lawrence O’Donnell (@Lawrence) June 21, 2018
And if even journalism professors are not reading the articles, there is little left to say about the future of the media amid the onslaught of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Gitmo Jr. Good Lord. https://t.co/VAy8NIsqGc
— Jeff Jarvis (@jeffjarvis) June 21, 2018
fuck impeachment. this motherfucker should be locked up for life. https://t.co/vX6YevImK5
— marisa kabas (@MarisaKabas) June 21, 2018
The date makes a difference because the article mentions Trump 5 times and mentions the sitting president at the time of the atrocities 0 times.
Is it surprising? no.
— Csan (@CsanBoySmith) June 21, 2018
But…but…but…don’t screw up the narrative!!!
— Dan Bowen (@ScotchGuyDan) June 21, 2018
Full time job correcting these narratives
— Objective Journalist (@dim_objective) June 21, 2018
So it turns out many of these children were placed there during the Obama administratin. Shamefull.
— Ken Montgomery (@MontgomeryKen) June 21, 2018
How many reporters have tweeted this out…without clearly stating this occurred under Obama’s watch?
I mean, you want to know why journalists are not trusted on the hard stuff? This is why. https://t.co/sC9jpNLc9G
— Pradheep J. Shanker, M.D., M.S. (@Neoavatara) June 21, 2018
And this doesn’t even discuss the DOZENS of reporters that have RT’d this, without any context or nuance, having THOUSANDS of followers like a post which they’ll never read.
Our media sucks. pic.twitter.com/AaBEgf9Ips
— Pradheep J. Shanker, M.D., M.S. (@Neoavatara) June 21, 2018
Wow. Another not-scandal from the scandal-free Obama administration.
— Alex Zelinski (@A_Zelinski) June 21, 2018
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