{"id":17265,"date":"2018-06-19T15:33:25","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T19:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=17265"},"modified":"2018-12-28T10:21:12","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T15:21:12","slug":"suffering-from-separation-anxiety-media-lose-all-perspective-and-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2018\/06\/19\/suffering-from-separation-anxiety-media-lose-all-perspective-and-balance\/","title":{"rendered":"Suffering from \u201cseparation\u201d Anxiety, Media Lose All Perspective and Balance"},"content":{"rendered":"
For several weeks, the news media have been abandoning their roles as reporters with the duty to provide accurate information from a dispassionate perspective. It is clear many are suffering from \u201cseparation anxiety\u201d as they fail to \u201creport\u201d on the Trump administration\u2019s immigration policies in the wake of a rapidly-rising flow of illegal immigrants across the U.S. border.<\/p>\n
The story has now risen to such a level that all three news networks dispatched their anchors to Texas so they could tour detention centers and interview women and children trying to enter the U.S. Rather than act as mediators, many have been performing as agitators.<\/p>\n
During a Monday interview<\/a> Manuel Padilla, chief of the Rio Grande Valley Sector of Customs and Border Protection (CPB), tried to explain to with CBS\u2019s Morning News anchor Gayle King the complicated history of protecting the border.<\/p>\n He described the influence of smugglers and how CPB began to implement a policy to detain family units in 2014. But King clearly did not want to hear how events today resembled those taking place during the Obama administration.<\/p>\n \u201cLet me stop you there because I don\u2019t want to go back to 2014,\u201d she informed Padilla.<\/p>\n