Mastodon MigrationDid you know that ICE pepper sprayed a sitting US Senator yesterday?
Not if you get your news from the New York Times, you don't.
James Cridland@mastodonmigration I’m no apologist for the New York Times, but the narrative of “BUT THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA” is tiring, and inaccurate. Support the media who report this stuff. Including - yes - the New York Times.
Nonsense. The complicity of the New York Times in this catastrophe is a major issue, and the fact that they buried what is a huge story in the middle of another story a day later does not win them any points. In fact, it is even worse, because they effectively normalize these actions by giving them such light treatment. If Lindsay Graham had been pepper sprayed during a Biden administration it would be front page news for a month.
@mastodonmigration You’re clearly reading a different “failing” New York Times to me.
I wasn’t there; but my reading of that matter is that a senator was directly inserting himself in the way between ICE and protestors; and I don’t see a suggestion that “he was sprayed”, rather that he was affected by the pepper spray being sprayed, which is a rather different thing. I don’t know. Nor do you.
Anyway - once more, journalists and media people who are reporting this, in any fashion, deserve your support. It’s lazy to claim they didn’t cover it when what you really mean is “they didn’t cover it in a way that I would have liked”.
Nope. We should demand better from the paper of record. Giving short shift to such atrocities is not enough and it is not OK.
Chubbypunk@mastodonmigration @james maybe, i wasn’t there.
but it‘s for shure not correct to say that nyt didn‘t wrote about. Btw: the date is one day before. And the center thing should be the circumstances in the can. That they pepper a guy (why are there no pictures, if it was filmed?) who‘s privileged to do something. It‘s a nice „look, ice goes against the own government“, but not more.
but it‘s for shure not correct to say that nyt didn‘t wrote about. Btw: the date is one day before. And the center thing should be the circumstances in the can. That they pepper a guy (why are there no pictures, if it was filmed?) who‘s privileged to do something. It‘s a nice „look, ice goes against the own government“, but not more.