Immigration protests and media distrust: Everything comes back to 2020
We're still grappling with the aftermath of journalism's profound failure during Covid and the George Floyd protests. The lies reporters told five years ago continue to haunt them - and all of us. What’s really happening in Los Angeles right now? What’s happening on the ground? How bad are these immigration protests/riots? I don’t know. And neither do you. The legacy media insists the protests are minor and the National Guard’s deployment is unnecessary. The New York Times complains of “the false impression that the entire city was engulfed in violence, when the clashes were limited to only a small...