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Pathological Media Amnesia – CNN
Teaching kids to play with the Gestapo is a questionable lesson.
At CNN, they went full swooning praise over a story from the Minneapolis protests and never paused to consider what it was promoting. In a feature on a pair of teenage siblings who are combating ICE actions in their city, CNN makes it sound wondrous that they are foregoing their childhood to battle the Feds.
Small Issue: This defies all the previous coverage out of Minneapolis from these journalists.
For months, we have heard nightmare scenarios on the regular, and then the episodes involving Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti ramped up the reporting rhetoric. So this leads to a question: If we are told that ICE agents are murderers and they are behaving like the Gestapo by gunning down innocent citizens, why would you think it is a wise idea to send kids out to do battle with those "Nazis"?!
The teenagers' names are Sam and Ben, but to the federal immigration agents they interact with daily, the two boys wielding cell phones and taking........