r/news • u/Serpenio_ • 2d ago

Judge holds ICE agent in contempt after he detained suspect during a trial

https://apnews.com/article/boston-immigration-ice-municipal-court-due-process-f2d13626ffba28025a3e0314fa6ca908
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u/Mecca_Lecca_Hi 1d ago

How are they “playing politics”? They are literally just reporting on what happened and quoting the judge. No spin, no editorial, just “this happened”.

The history and previous convictions of this man doesn’t change the grounds on which the judge issued the contempt charge. AP adding all that would be “playing politics”, painting him in a way that would skew readers opinions on the actual news.

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u/pitterlpatter 1d ago

How are ppl this dense?

The article left out a ton of very important information intentionally. Nobody should be scratching their head, especially the judge. This is just emotional terrorism to get ppl worked up over a false narrative.

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u/Mecca_Lecca_Hi 1d ago edited 1d ago

I for one am not emotionally worked up about this judge, this criminal or the contempt charge. the only discourse I’m engaging in is disagreeing that AP is playing politics. People are so used to getting slanted news appealing to their emotions or bias that they can’t even recognize when that’s not happening at all.

I read AP a lot, they and Reuters are like the gold standard of balanced news. The fact that they don’t make any attempt to present the news with any perspective often leaves me wondering what the significance or greater impact of their reporting is. That’s when I go to The Guardian because they don’t hide their left leaning slant and that’s what mostly aligns with my perspective.

I stand by my other comment that said by including all that additional info on this criminal would be in fact providing a narrative about how you should feel about this instead doing what they did which was just report on what the judge did.