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Showing Original Post only (View all)Eric Boehlert: The Washington Post owes Biden an apology [View all]
https://pressrun.media/p/the-washington-post-owes-biden-anThe Washington Post owes Biden an apology
Border hysteria
Eric Boehlert
1 hr ago
One month after falsely blaming the Biden administration for creating a crisis at the southern border, the Washington Post remains oddly reserved regarding good news about the plummeting number of migrant youths now held in U.S. detention centers. The Post for months led the media charge with nonstop, negative coverage about the surge; coverage that often mimics GOP talking points.
But now as conditions at the border improve, much of the media, including the Post, are suddenly less interested in the immigration story.
The good news came on Thursday when CNN published a scoop detailing how the number of unaccompanied children held by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, "dropped nearly 84% in the span of a month, according to a White House official, underscoring the significant progress made by the administration after reaching record high custody figures." The CNN report quoted an official who spoke anonymously.
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If the Biden administration were to blame for the migrant crisis, if its missteps were the reason for the rising number of border detentions, as the Post insisted in March, doesn't it stand that the Biden administration deserves credit for the sweeping reduction at the border thats now unfolding? Or does the Post only consider bad news for the White House to be real news? The Post literally ran a border detention story that included this quote in the headline: "No End in Sight." Now, according to the last figures, there is end is sight.
The paper has hardly been alone in echoing apocalyptic GOP rhetoric about the border this year. In a highly unusual move, ABC This Week in late March staged its entire Sunday program from the border in order to focus on the "emerging crisis for the Biden administration." During the president's inaugural press conference that month, he was peppered with questions about the border (a topic the GOP was pushing), and was not asked a single question about Covid-19 (a topic the GOP was not).
In terms of the amount of border news coverage this year, it's been eye-popping, as the press continues to take its cues from Republicans. During Biden's first nine weeks in office, immigration was the third most-common topic of new coverage, according to a new Pew study and that coverage was overwhelmingly negative. That volume of immigration coverage is especially startling considering the topic didn't really gain traction until six weeks into Biden's presidency. Then the media avalanche arrived.
The press and the GOP helped create the border "crisis" this year. Now they need to acknowledge reality.
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Yes, if the "crisis" was news, the marked improvement over a month is certainly news.
elias7
May 2021
#2
IKR !? Putin's Whore called the enemy of the people DAILY you'd think they know their asses are ...
uponit7771
May 2021
#12
To many in the MSM, the Republican Party is the default party, whether they are in or out of power
Hekate
May 2021
#8
+1, immigration is number 5 issue for voters not because things exploded out of control
uponit7771
May 2021
#13
They also bury news stories about the Jan. 6 insurrection in the local news section
Wicked Blue
May 2021
#18