Prior to the 2008 U.S. Presidential election, CNN was a network, seemingly enough, in support of building a Texas-Mexico fence. Now, though, with President Barack Obama in office, CNN could care less, it seems, about the fence.
There are two stories on CNN that I read this morning, Teen made $50,000 smuggling drugs across border and El Paso school a haven along violent border, both seemingly take a sympathetic eye to problems many Mexicans face.
The first story, about the teen drug mule, is little more than a sob-story of a now-21-year-old – and others like him — who alleges to have made over $50,000 in a few years by smuggling drugs. The story almost serves as a step-by-step manual for getting into the business.
In the second story we read about the Lydia Patterson Institute, which is a private school established over 100 years ago. School administrators – and the article – seemingly brag that about 70 percent of its student body cross the border from Mexico and come to the U.S. daily to attend classes. According to the article, “Lydia Patterson’s faculty and administrators — many of whom are graduates of the school, and also reside in Juarez — say the school’s mission is very much the same as it was when it was founded nearly 100 years ago as a sanctuary for Mexican families fleeing the violence of the Mexican Revolution.”
Is this the kind of soft reporting, if one dares accept it as such – which I do not – and move on. If that kind of reporting does not sit well with you, either, then take action: write the station or network offices so the complaint is in the FCC file the next time the station renews its license. The other, and even more powerful act is to simply no longer watch that channel’s news.
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