Today's news features another pandemic-ignoring spring break in Florida. It also featured a heavy helping of the newest media obsession, another "crisis" on the southern border of the sort that conservatives discover with clockwork regularity and media outlets desperate for both sides rhetoric promote with an eagerness that comes very close to outright groveling.
That much of the current narrative is unsubtly premised on the supposed neutrality of a choice between continuing to violate international human rights doctrines (as the last administration did with vigor) or retreating from those policies shows how close to the surface America's fascist tendencies remain—and how impossibly vapid our national political press continues to be. We cannot all be Edward R. Murrow, but perhaps our most staid punditry could crib a bit less transparently from Shark Week?
Stories you may have missed:
• 'Ron DeSantis is at fault': Lack of leadership leads to spring break public health threat in Miami
• 'You care about immigrants?': Dems call out GOP hypocrisy and media enabling
• Tracking Biden's promises to Black America: His COVID-19 relief plan does not disappoint
• Rep. Grace Meng addresses Texas congressman's xenophobic comments in emotional video
• These are the people who died in the Atlanta spa shootings and the lives they left behind
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