Media Serves Up Advocacy, Not Legal Analysis, on DACA
By John Miano on November 13, 2019
Since I inadvertently stumbled into immigration issues year ago, reading how the media covers those issues has demonstrated how bad the American news media is. This week's "news" provides a clear example.
The big immigration news this week is the Supreme Court's oral arguments on the DACA rescission. During the build-up, I searched for news articles on the legal issues involved. I was curious how the media would explain the legal issues involved in the DACA case to the public and, in particular, their explanation of the implications of those issues.
I could find a few such explanations in the non-elite media.
However, I was not able to find any example of such an explanation in any elite media outlet. Instead of dealing with the legal issues involved in a legal case, the media served up political advocacy:
https://cis.org/Miano/Media-Serves-Advocacy-Not-Legal-Analysis-DACA
