{"id":619510,"date":"2021-08-07T15:06:16","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T19:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=619510"},"modified":"2021-08-07T15:06:20","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T19:06:20","slug":"graham-the-medias-spectacular-stand-against-prisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/graham-the-medias-spectacular-stand-against-prisons\/","title":{"rendered":"GRAHAM: The Media\u2019s \u2018Spectacular\u2019 Stand Against Prisons"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgraham-the-medias-spectacular-stand-against-prisons%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=619510&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The \u201cmainstream media\u201d love to pretend that they represent the sensible middle ground of the ideological spectrum, but any extended look at their coverage reveals that they are incapable of finding an unsuitable extreme on the Left. For example, some leftists openly advocate for the end of prisons. Are they questioned for their sanity? No. They\u2019re given platforms for their \u201cpoetry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the Aug. 4 episode of \u201cPBS NewsHour,\u201d they celebrated a man named Jorge Antonio Renaud. On the \u201cLatino Rebels\u201d website last year, Renaud explicitly declared, \u201cI\u2019m going to speak about prison abolition, which is the idea that the American criminal justice system is immoral, grounded as it is in punishment and abuse; that it gains sustenance from humans consigned to cages; and that it must be dismantled and replaced by a justice system based in transformative and restorative approaches.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>PBS anchor Judy Woodruff provided him a taxpayer-funded platform: \u201cJorge Antonio Renaud spent 27 years behind bars, where he discovered the power of poetry. He is now national criminal justice director at Latino Justice, where he advocates for reform in Texas and beyond. Tonight, he gives his \u2018Brief But Spectacular\u2019 take on reimagining incarceration.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,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\" alt=\"pastedGraphic.png\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Renaud spoke of \u201cthe demonstrable harm that happens to people who are in cages,\u201d but he didn\u2019t comment on the demonstrable harm of people who are victimized by armed robbery, which he committed. PBS did not create a space for debate. It created a platform for a \u201cbrief but spectacular\u201d case for abolishing prisons. Does Woodruff want armed robbers living in her basement?<\/p>\n<p>PBS is not alone. The Associated Press filed a \u201cnews\u201d dispatch on Aug. 5 that was a badly disguised ad for the \u201cabolish ICE\u201d crowd. The headline was \u201cImmigrant Detentions Soar Despite Biden\u2019s Campaign Promises.\u201d AP reporters Philip Marcelo and Gerald Herbert began from the illegal alien perspective. \u201cAlexander Martinez says he fled from homophobia, government persecution and the notorious MS-13 gang in El Salvador only to run into abuse and harassment in America\u2019s immigration detention system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a border crisis under President Joe Biden, but for the radical Left, the problem is that illegal immigrants are detained at all. AP reported, \u201cThe rising detentions is a sore point for President Joe Biden\u2019s pro-immigration allies, who hoped he would reverse his predecessor\u2019s hardline approach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Notice when you back untrammeled illegal immigration, you\u2019re merely \u201cpro-immigration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then, AP just let this laughable notion of immigration \u201chardliner\u201d Biden go on. \u201cWe\u2019re at this really strange moment with him,\u201d Silky Shah, executive director of Detention Watch Network, said. At least AP explained Shah \u201cadvocates for ending immigration detention outright,\u201d although there was no opposing point of view. Shah added, \u201cThere\u2019s still time to turn things around, but his policies so far haven\u2019t matched his campaign rhetoric.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is apparently the Democratic Party\u2019s base. Shah has explicitly written, \u201cIt is not enough to abolish ICE and disentangle immigration from the criminal punishment system; we must work to abolish the entire prison industrial complex in order for all of our communities to thrive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just like PBS, AP did not offer the public an actual debate on whether all of our prisons should be emptied out. They created an invincibly one-sided platform for a nutty, radical point of view.<\/p>\n<p>The media pretend that they are the guardians of democracy. But in reality, they are the guardians of the Left and distrust democracy because it gives those crazy right-wingers space to rebut the radical Left. In a real democracy, people will search out other more responsible news sources than PBS and AP.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><i>Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Tim Graham, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cmainstream media\u201d love to pretend that they represent the sensible middle ground of the ideological spectrum, but any extended look at their coverage reveals that they are incapable of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}