This week, I’ve documented the media’s profound failures in coverage of the National Guard shooting. First, how news giants repeated Trump’s nonsensical “20 million” claim. Then, the glaring lies of omission in coverage of the shooter, an Afghan refugee. Now, it’s time to dig into perhaps the most hypocritical failure of all.
In 2021, the media played a major role in rushing the process of moving huge numbers of Afghans into the United States — which led to health dangers, overwhelmed hospitals, packed U.S. military bases and, worst of all, the entry of potentially dangerous people into the country.
Prominent media figures demanded the government bypass the normal, multi-year vetting process. There were good reasons to get Afghans who helped the United States to safety before the Taliban could kill them. But the media’s specific demands were myopic, contributing to the chaos. Learn details in the latest episode.
The next year, the Office of Inspector General found that due to the rush, the United States “may have admitted or paroled individuals into the United States who pose a risk to national security and the safety of local communities.”
How did this happen exactly? What did the media do and not do? What happened on military bases, and what’s this about measles? Get details in this edited, hyperlinked transcript, not available anywhere else.
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