Why is the media DEAD silent on children in cages?

[Takket]

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^^^This

What AOC said is a front page controversy, but not the atrocities being committed?

WTF?

I mean... the media DID care about a year ago. This was a big deal. Then... It just went away.

[dhill926]

1. kicking and reccing....

"What AOC said is a front page controversy, but not the atrocities being committed?" Exactly this...

[Wellstone ruled]

2. None of the Reporters or their Boss's

are directly effected. Think of the National and World Wide embarrassment this story is. Our Press loves to beat up on Foreign Countries especially Latin American or Mid Eastern. But when it happens in their back yard,say what,I know nothing,who,duh.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

3. I have said this before and I will say it again

If any other country did this to American children, we would be nuking them back to the pre-Cambrian era before dawn.

It comes down to this - either you are pro-putting children in cages and treating them like diseased animals or you're NOT. And yes, it IS this simple.

I no longer recognize this country. As a veteran, this sickens me. I did not wear the uniform to support this savagery.

I am sick of calling my senators and congresspeople and seeing NOTHING done about this. NOTHING. There are no bills being passed, no legislation moving forward, nothing. We are doing NOTHING about this. A few days ago, the US was being placed in a category with Russia, Saudi Arabia, North Korea and Iran. If you're known by the company you keep, what does THIS say about us ?

Our allies no longer look to us for leadership and guidance. They no longer trust us the keep our word or even uphold our own moralizing.

Our laws no longer mean anything as they are being broken every day with impunity from the WH on down.

If we are no longer a nation of laws, what are we ?

I no longer have any answers.

[SCVDem]

12. Semper Fi

USMC

[Haggis for Breakfast]

37. Semper Fortis, shipmate.

[triron]

16. Fourth Reich.

[defacto7]

22. I wholeheartedly agree.

[Docreed2003]

27. This. Thank you Haggis

[2naSalit]

30. Indeed. ...nt

[emmaverybo]

4. I don't think journalists are allowed near the detention centers, the caravans, the groups forced

to bunk on the ground behind a fence.
So we get reports on policy, but no recent documentary evidence of the
deprivation, cruelty, substandard conditions and abuse.
I had hoped investigative reporters might be able to follow up on deportees or those released.
Yeah, fickle news cycle. But once a few photos got out, I am sure stronger measures were put in
place to guard the secret operations.

[Volaris]

5. Food animals in slaughterhouses, get more 'aggressive journalism' than these CHILDREN...

and that makes me nothing but sad....

Come on Free Press, where the fuck you at?

[leftieNanner]

6. Not just the journalists

My senator Jeff Merkley was not permitted to view the concentration camps either. Several House groups were kept out as well.

This is truly vile

[emmaverybo]

8. This complete lack of access to the people locked up is what is most troubling. That members of the

House have no authority for independent investigation, much less oversight, is incredible. Do you
know if there is any recourse through the courts for any outside body to gain access?

[leftieNanner]

35. I don't know that information

But I read today that the reason they are moving these migrants to military bases is so they can close the doors even tighter to any scrutiny. The military can refuse to allow anyone to enter their facilities.

In all of the hideous things that have happened in the past two years, this incarceration of immigrants (especially the children!) is the worst. I wish I could collect ALL of the children and bring them to my house and love them.

[NutmegYankee]

9. It's a shame there isn't a technology to carry a camera on a little flying machine...

[Lady Freedom Returns]

21. Drones get shot down.

And none of the big news sources are reporting it.
Only some of our small, local papers have briefly touched on it. Then suddenly they shut up.

[moniss]

7. The media yes but

also where are we as people taking to the streets demanding action? Remember the huge demonstrations when they first proposed their travel ban for Muslims? It seems like after the Women's March and the success of the 2018 election things have gone astray as far as the street. I honestly don't know if it's just burn-out or what but nobody in power is going to react much to just words on TV or in a newspaper. They've all got the PR people to get them through that.

[Nuggets]

10. Because they don't give a hoot about people

except as customers.

The executives of our news networks support Republicans and have for decades. They are the wealthy who are getting the tax breaks and other benefits selling Republican baloney to the public.

“Government is the problem” of

Tax cuts for “job creators” create job opportunities and promote a healthy economy.

Spending only matters when Democrats are helping average Americans but not when we’re handing billions to huge companies and investors.



Immigration had only become a huge issue again because the GOP needed a distraction from the unpopular Iraq Resolution and the crashing economy that failed due to conservative fiscal policies.

Then Boom! all that mattered was illegals supposedly stealing all our jobs.
And that became the focus thanks to cable news and online conservative blogs.

Typical narcissistic tactic. Divert the conversation gets the attention off what you are doing.

Get others to fight your battles online anonymously that way they can distance themselves if necessary.

[JoeOtterbein]

11. Thank you for this. The answer to your question is that it is easier to cover a story a Dem or...

...a repug is willing to push.

So most political journalists;

scratch the itch, that scratches the most.

Actually easy as pie!

[Vegas Roller]

13. My thoughts exactly

This should be a lead story on every broadcast and every front page as long as it continues.

[UniteFightBack]

14. Chris Cuomo brings it up all the time. nt

[ecstatic]

15. Between the daily mass shootings, kids in cages, families separated at the border,

etc., is there any way to describe this country other than deplorable? I hate to say it, but it's true.

[quickesst]

17. I've been listening about it all day long....

.....on multiple news channels. All about the conditions, and all about the three-judge panel who is eviscerating the Trump lawyer concerning the humane treatment of these children.

Last time I checked, I was not living in another Earthly dimension.

[icymist]

18. Believe it or not, our media is still arguing over what to call it!

Are Children Being Kept in 'Cages' at the Border?
A semantic debate is raging over what to call the pens where migrant kids are being held after separation from their parents.
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It’s hard to think of something more tangible than a child incarcerated in a tent city or a former Walmart building—and yet as the story of families being separated at the border mushrooms, one of the central questions has been a semantic one: whether the migrant children are being kept in cages.

Here’s what no one disputes: When the children are separated from their parents, they’re sent to facilities where they are kept in chain-link pens they can’t leave. But are those cages? It depends on whom you ask.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/06/ceci-nest-pas-une-cage/563072/

[Duppers]

19. Shoot the messenger!

This is not the country I grew up in.

It's now gawdamn

[Duppers]

20. Shoot the messenger!

This is not the country I grew up in.

It's now GawdDamn CRAZY!!

[certainot]

23. this is a great eg of the incredible stupidity of ignoring talk radio

---- if 1500 radio stations were screaming about kids in cages as opposed to attacking iran, how would politics in america be?

the city dwelling leaders of the dem party and progressive orgs need to pull their ear buds out and stick them up their asses and start listening to the messaging that dominates 40 states with 80 fucking senators

they continue the biggest political mistake in history

[Hekate]

24. I watch selected cable news, and both Rachel Maddow and Nicolle Wallace have had a LOT to say...

They just don't say it every hour of every day, do they? I subscribe to the Los Angeles Times, and likewise.

Always. Sometimes. Never. Which is it? Or do you just miss it? Or do you forget?

[ck4829]

25. K&R

[Baltimike]

26. Because the "liberal media" has been the CONSERVATIVE PRESS all along. nt

[Midnightwalk]

28. Here's the other messed up part

Doing this to children is so unacceptable that it is easy to forget that the treatment of the adults is also unacceptable.

We need to try to get the public to focus on the children now That’s more urgent as they are being scarred for life and is the more compelling csse, but I hope we don’t forget the adults who are held in at least as bad physical conditions.

[Act_of_Reparation]

29. Because people don't care.

Not enough to do anything about it. So let's all drink Budweiser and watch America's Got Talent.

[Boomerproud]

38. Thread winner for honesty.

[FiveGoodMen]

31. Many of them (at least their bosses) really ARE the enemy

Just not the way Trump says.

They're still happy to have the US go fascist if they can make some cash out of it.

[LessAspin]

32. Trump ordered up mass arrests for reelection purposes.

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Everyone should be thanking AOC for shining a light on these atrocities. Otherwise the media would still be treating this like business as usual...

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[spanone]

33. K&R...

[lunatica]

34. Chris Hayes covered it yesterday, and the day before

He’s also covered this topic from the time it broke and he has traveled there.

[Shaddox]

36. Because you are in your end times, America. You fucked up.

[Liberal In Texas]

39. They're not.

It's just so much other crap is out there.

>>Top Stories on Google News as of this writing<<

1) Iran: Trump decision to not start a war
2) Trump accused of rape
3) ICE raids
4) Hannity love letters to Manafort
5) Children in cages being abused.

I guess it's all a matter of what one thinks is important at any one time. There is just soooo much awful going around.