Newsmax America Right Now host Tom Basile spoke to Matt Taibbi of Racket News on Saturday about viewers’ distrust of the legacy media.
The main topic of discussion was about how the media handles stories surrounding ICE. Basile showed a 2016 clip of a CNN journalist going on a ride-along with ICE. At that time, ICE was not being persecuted like they are now. He compared it to how the media is handling ICE coverage now.
“We are joined by the editor-in-chief of Racket News, Matt Taibbi,” Basile said.
“Back in May of 2016, during the Obama administration, CNN got an exclusive ride-along with ICE,” Basile said.
A clip from that ride-along was shown with what would be considered positive and fair reporting on ICE at the time.
“The piece, Matt, was overwhelmingly positive. Ten years later, this is how the media feels about ICE,” Basile said.
A few recent clips were shown by a few media outlets, unfairly portraying ICE without any objective reporting.
“Matt, what’s changed?” Basile asked.
“This is very strange to me. I mean, I wrote a book, it significantly covered the immigration question back in the Obama years, and so many of the practices that are now I hear being described as unprecedented are things that we knew were common 10 or 15 years ago,” Taibbi explained.
“There were record numbers of people being deported at a time when it was popular, and now it isn’t. And I think, you know, the main difference is that Donald Trump is President,” Taibbi continued.
“Is it as simple as the press just wanting to support the open border policy of the far left? Or is it about at this point now, ten years later, you stoke division for ratings and for clicks and to placate the algorithm? What are your thoughts?” Basile asked.
Taibbi explained that much of the media’s reaction is opposition to President Trump, even if they supported a similar policy under a previous administration.
“It’s a combination of a lot of things. A lot of news agencies are really reflexively considered anti-Trump, and so any policy that he is going to undertake is going to get criticism, whether or not they previously supported that policy or not,” Taibbi explained.
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