By now people should be fairly conversant with the tactic of ‘flooding the zone’. These are propaganda campaigns that depend on pushing out as many lies fitting a particular narrative as possible. Fact checking them is nearly futile because no individual lie matters. The assumption is that the public isn’t closing following any particular story, it’s just being barraged with a massive amount of them that all say the same thing.
For example, the media put out thousands of stories claiming that Israel was killing women and children in Gaza and committing other atrocities. Pro-Israel people tried fact-checking them, but not only did the media rarely acknowledge any fact checks, but even when something was proven wrong, it didn’t matter because there were 999 more of these stories out there.
The media has been doing the same thing with Trump and ICE. As an example of its low standards, consider this trending story about Sioux tribe members supposedly being detained by ICE.
Oglala Sioux Tribe says three tribal members arrested in Minneapolis are in ICE detention – AP
Oglala Sioux Tribe says ICE holding tribal members – Axios
The Oglala Sioux Tribe, one of the largest Indigenous tribal nations in the U.S., is accusing ICE of illegally holding four tribal members picked up during Minneapolis raids.
Oglala Sioux Tribe president Frank Star Comes Out wrote in a memo Tuesday to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem that ICE recently detained the tribal members and demanded their release.
Star Comes Out said the men were homeless and living under a bridge near the Little Earth housing complex in the East Phillips neighborhood in Minneapolis.
As usual with media stories, whether it’s in the USSR, China or the mainstream media, you read between the lines and look for what they don’t say.
The AP story claims that three tribals had been arrested while the Axios story claims that it’s four. But what’s really missing are their names. Where are their names and their sympathetic profiles that the media usually loves to run? There’s a good reason for it, one that neither AP nor Axios seems willing to discuss because the media is simply a propaganda operation that lies by omission.
In a previous statement made last Thursday, Star Comes Out announced that four unhoused men had been detained by ICE near the intersection of 24th Street and Cedar Avenue in south Minneapolis, where they had been living beneath a bridge near a Little Earth, a subsidized housing complex. That initial statement said that a bystander who was also a member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe confirmed their tribal membership but did not get their names. The statement released Tuesday by Adams goes on to say the tribe has since learned the first names of all four men, and that one man has been released.
None of these names are listed. The entire basis for this story was a claim made by a ‘bystander’ who supposedly knew they were members of the tribe… but didn’t know their names.
The media has no factual standards for the lies it runs. Only political ones.
