In this Substack live event from earlier today, I discussed Trump administration’s responses to a barrage of media questions about why the data on ICE arrests and detention don’t fit the administration’s claims about focusing on serious criminals and terrorists.
In the course of working through ICE’s mostly misleading counter-claims, however, I also found inaccurate points raised by CBS in an interview with Thomas Homan that illustrate where the news media still has lots of room to improve.
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ICE is Irritated by Facts, News Struggles to Get Facts Straight
Today’s essay could be characterized as a meditation on irritation. ICE is irritated with me for publishing facts, the public is increasingly irritated with ICE for not doing what they said they’d do, and I’m irritated with news outlets for getting basic facts wrong.
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