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News Brief: Media Helps Sell ICE Raids with Zero Dark Thirty Ride-Along Schlock
🕑 Added 2025-10-22 16:54:00 +0000 UTCIn this News Brief, we discuss how "embedded reports" on ICE raids--as seen in the New York Times, NBC, Fox News, CBS, and ABC--prime the public for brutal crackdowns on undocumented immigrants.
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Guest
Matthew Cunningham-Cook is a writer, researcher and reporter. His work can be found in The American Prospect, Rolling Stone, Labor Notes, The Nation, The Intercept, and elsewhere. He is currently an investigative journalist covering DHS and ICE at the Center for Media and Democracy.
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Show Notes
How ICE Terror Campaigns Are Used to Discipline Labor
Sarah Lazare | October 1, 2025 | The American Prospect
“Even When They Gas Us": Hundreds Brave Tear Gas, Pepper Balls to Protest ICE
Sarah Lazare | September 26, 2025 | In These Times
Led by Fox, Journalists Embed With DHS Amid Media Crackdown
Matthew Cunningham-Cook | September 24, 2025 | The American Prospect
ICE Abducts Man Suing Off-Duty Police for Abusing Day Laborers
Sarah Lazare | September 13, 2025 | In These Times
DHS Claims Videotaping ICE Raids Is ‘Violence’
Matthew Cunningham-Cook | September 9, 2025 | The American Prospect
How One Teamsters Local Is Striking to Protect Immigrant Workers
Sarah Lazare | August 25, 2025 | The American Prospect
Lawsuit Against DHS Reveals Pattern of Excessive Force Against Journalists
Matthew Cunningham-Cook | August 19, 2025 | Rolling Stone
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Transcript
For a full transcript of this News Brief, go here. You can also find transcripts of past episodes, live shows, Beg-a-Thons, Interviews and News Briefs here.
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Credits
Senior Producer: Florence Barrau-Adams
Producer: Julianne Tveten
Production Assistant: Trendel Lightburn
Newsletter: Marco Cartolano
Music: Grandaddy
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