You might be confused about why immigration dominated the press conference

[senseandsensibility]

and you would be right to wonder. After all immigration is undergoing a seasonal surge that repeats itself year after year. The media knows this.

So why keep returning to it question after question to the point of totally excluding any questions about the issues on real people's minds? Not one question about the pandemic. Also, gun control was barely mentioned.

It's because the media, including CNN and MSNBC, it pains me to say, care and/or know little about what real people are going through. They are emmeshed in some kind of weird
beltway bubble which gets its talking points from FAUX news. FAUX has been laying the groundwork for this for weeks.

The medias' willingness to go along is embarrassing and for once, they're actually being called out on it.

[joetheman]

1. This is exactly how Trump won. Help from the entire media and Faux New mainly.

2022 wont be won or loss at the ballot box. It will be won or loss at the cable switch and the radio button.

[senseandsensibility]

6. I saw Reuters homepage and their headline from the conference

was Biden compares Xi to Putin. How refreshing.

[DanieRains]

2. They Aren't Media

They are outrage peddlers who need eyeballs to sell ads.

Practically worthless.

[FakeNoose]

5. I LOVE this description - it's so true!

[dobleremolque]

22. Stealing! Off to the meme factory, now. n/t

[calimary]

27. Yep. Whatever stirs shit up.

Having worked in that business, it's all about getting attention. Grabbing the viewer/listener. And preferably keeping them. Stoking the fire - and their fears and dreads and outrages. Inflamers. And scab-pickers (figurably speaking, although with some of 'em, probably literally...).

[WHITT]

3. Not Confused

MSM was hurling "gotcha" questions, but as they use to say on 'In Living Color', Homey don't play that.

[Hoyt]

4. Seasonal or not, Immigration is going to be issue for next four years, that's

why Biden put the VP on it. Might as well get used to it.

[patricia92243]

7. Absolutely. THe GOP will win again if Immigration cannot

be brought under control. Repubs in my house already talking

[Hoyt]

8. Duplicate. Sorry.

[Hoyt]

9. "Control" might be something beyond treating people like dirt, GOPers' solution.

Not sure what answer is.

[NutmegYankee]

13. We could try different messaging.

For instance not releasing unaccompanied child back to Mexico protects them from traffickers. Any responsible person has a duty to ensure that children that come into their care are protected.

[Hoyt]

14. Agree. We have to do something different.

[wnylib]

23. Such as addressing the source

which our VP is doing already by talking with leaders in the 3 triangle Central American countries where most of the migrants are coming from. And Biden is restoring the rule of law that requires asylum seekers to be treated with humane dignity while being vetted instead of criminalizing them.

We should take pride in the fact that the US is still a beacon of liberty for those who seek it.

[Hoyt]

34. Yep, we have to do something about the source of the problem. But opposition will be strong.

[uponit7771]

16. +1, anyone who lurks winger forums could see the immigration lie coming from 10 miles away it was

... just a shock to see the other M$M outlets repeat the "surge" shit.

... and they're still doing it to create an issue because they're fuckin lazy

[wnylib]

24. I think the term for that is muckraking.

The idiot media are still hooked on the Trump era sensationalist drug. They need a recovery program.

[NutmegYankee]

11. Yep, it is all the rightwing scum talk about on the local newspaper site.

That and they keep circle jerking each other on the dementia claim. They switched to conspiracies that the press conference was staged rather than admit they were wrong.

[uponit7771]

15. Nah, Biden forwards a bill for 50 billion for process immigrants quickly and republicans vote

... against it and Biden demagogues them in the media over and over again for about a month playing the refs on why they're not questioning republican racism when it comes to non white immigrants.

Issue dead outside of winger world,

inside of winger world doesn't matter.

[senseandsensibility]

17. I agree

The days of following the beat of rightwing spin and memes should be over.

[uponit7771]

19. +1, and that's exactly what the lazy assed M$M did on this issue. There was no unusual "surge" of

... immigrants coming across and the children was build up from Trump cruelty.

The M$M should know this but either they're too fuckin lazy or they want ratings

[wnylib]

25. Yellow journalism

[uponit7771]

26. +1, exactly !! Hayes was just covering the border issue as not being the top issue among Americans

... and the other guy who was on the panel made the case the us M$M aren't impartial players one what people see as a the top priority.

[OAITW r.2.0]

18. Democrats should be connecting immigration to climate change and infrastructure.

We will need lots of hard working immigrants to build the infrastructure needed to deal with coastal/river flooding on our economic commercial centers that climate change will be delivering.

[Mopar151]

28. Add the three, carry the five....

Maybe we should chip in on conservation work and human rights in Central America, as well. We've skipped out on the responsibilities from deporting gangsters to a place they happened to be born. And then there's School of the America's to consider.

[OAITW r.2.0]

29. There is no doubt in my mind that Republican policy in Central and South America

since the 60's have helped create the mess we face on immigration today. Nixon/Raegan/Bush policies in both places, supporting RW death squads that undermined democratic governments are mainly responsible for the refugee problem.

[Hoyt]

33. I think that's the key, but suggesting reversing those policies is going to get a lot

of opposition. But we have to get to the source of the problem.

Personally, I've long been for closer relationships to countries south of our border.

[uponit7771]

10. K&R, they see FAUX News ratings and want to get themselves some

[Dream Girl]

12. I can't stand how they moan and groan at the border. My God. It's as if those at the border are the

Only ones suffering.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

20. They'd constantly cover people getting crushed to death...

... by vending machines if we ever had a near-utopia with all of the bigger problems fixed.

Or whatever they thought would attract the most views from an audience who often enjoy all kinds of CRAP on TV, like Trump's "The Apprentice".

[cachukis]

21. They are all trying to make a living,

some with a bit of artistry to stay to the truth, others searching for another audience. Immigration is easy. Eyes and clicks and what's available to chase them, will move the swell.

Categorize the audience. We read. We contemplate between ideas as we read. We see the media through thinking minds. How many thinking minds have the chance to develop into deep thinking?

The media is THE connector. After reading "Sapiens," I could only agree that money was the true confidence of a society. It had replaced religion as a guarantee of commonality.

I'm convinced that media is more personal and cheaper than any sense of self that money could buy.
Instant gratification of the ups and downs of any of us.

Your challenge is part of a voice that rises with the obstacle.The next generation of intellectual clashes will be for voters. It's always been about the voters.
It's always been about the money. Now it's jumping into a whole new world. The alliance factors in the latest attempt to get into your head.

They have tools that are beyond imaginable a mere ten years ago. If the climate don't get ya' then the software will.

Don't see an escape. Has to be faced.

[Lonestarblue]

30. The so-called liberal media was all too eager to pick up Republican talking points.

All the DC reporters need to get out of the city and stop listening to their Republican comrades. They don’t seem to have a clue, or care, that Biden has been busy trying get vaccines to people so we can get out of this damned pandemic. He’s been in office 65 days already. Why hasn’t he solved all the country’s problems that have been problems for decades!

Most of the questions were gotcha questions to try to get him to make a misstatement. And what was with asking him whether he was running in 2024 with Harris as his running mate? Again, he’s been in office 65 freaking days! That may have been the stupidest question in history.

[KentuckyWoman]

31. The marching orders went out.

They'll hammer it to the exclusion of almost everything else.

It is what they do.

[panader0]

32. I read something here about right wing supported ministries in Central America

that are encouraging this surge. Anyone know anything about this?
Also, as a guy who has lived about 12 miles from the border for forty years, I can say there has been
no sign of anything here. It was much worse 20 or more years ago.

[BobTheSubgenius]

35. The electorate should know, and understand the implications of,

the absolutely ghastly job the majority of the media is doing in covering the WH, its policies and the way they are being implemented. They should KNOW that their government is not only working for them, but working HARD and achieving results.

[EX500rider]

36. The Mexican President probably isn't helping blaming it on Biden:

Mexico's President Says Biden's Promise of Better Treatment for Migrants Causing Border Surge

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the left-wing politician whose name is often abbreviated as "AMLO," placed blame for the border crisis on the Biden administration on Tuesday, implying that the president's team has allowed the perception that it's "easier" to cross the border to take root

https://www.newsweek.com/mexicos-president-says-bidens-promise-better-treatment-migrants-causing-border-surge-1578229