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Credible outlets can (and should) only report what is verifiable. They can't (and shouldn't) speculate or say things they can't back up / prove. This includes motives.
People really need to learn how journalism works and stop bemoaning that every headline everywhere isn't filled to the brim with speculative rhetoric.
"Mainstream media is complicit because they don't use the charged rhetoric I demand" is a purity test attitude I've grown quite sick of around here.
Then it seems that they should have left out "mistakenly" if they only report verifiable things that they can prove, including motives.
The media needs to not treat this as normal or blundering. MAGA know what they are doing: making this country intolerable to immigrants.
This isn't a purity test, it's criticism. That's a perfectly fine thing to do.
It's not "the media"s job to tell anyone how to feel about anything. It's not the media's job to say "this is good" or "this is bad". It IS their job to report the facts, paint the picture as accurately as they can with those facts, and leave it up to the reader/viewer to make up their own minds.
Putting things into context is one thing, but treating any situation as inherently good, evil, desired, undesired, etc is not their job; they're just there to report what's happening. Goddamn I hate what cable news has done to journalism.
The administration has admitted to an "administrative error" which makes "mistakenly" an accurate description.
Which is why I said the media is lying for the Trump administration: this is the lie that the administration told, and the media repeats it for them.
The fact is that they didn't give a fuck if they could deport him or not.
Saying he was "mistakenly deported" makes it sound like they cared one bit. There was no error; the judge issued an order asking for any evidence of that, and he got crickets back.
That “journalism works” is a bold statement while Jeff Bezos is dismantling the Washington Post and the New York Times has become a word game and recipe site that does reporting on the side.