Credit to the Department of Homeland Security and Vice President J.D. Vance for immediately nipping in the bud what was sure to be a hysterical weekend-long news cycle. And yet, the headlines remain.
New York Times: “Detention of 5-Year-Old by Federal Agents Incenses Minneapolis”
Washington Post: “ICE detains four children from Minnesota school district, including 5-year-old”
CBS: “ICE takes 5-year-old boy and his father after using boy as ‘bait,’ school district says”
Axios: “ICE’s detention of child puts new focus on Trump team’s tactics”
It’s the same playbook whenever the dying media want to manipulate their audiences and turn public sentiment against a government policy they oppose. In this case, immigration law enforcement. They would have you believe that ICE snatched an adorable little boy out of preschool and marched him into the frigid air of a Minneapolis suburb.
A photo used by The New York Times and The Washington Post and displayed on cable news depicts as much. (To be extra sure, the Post then ran a column headlined “The abhorrent power of the photograph of a 5-year-old held by ICE.”) But, naturally, that’s not what happened.
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