The Media Research Center knows its role as part of the Trump Regime Media, and a key part of that is servile stenography. The Trump administration’s deporting and rendition of migrants is one area in which the MRC is sticking to the approved narrative. Alex Christy wrote in a March 29 post:
Guest host Alicia Menendez then turned to former Obama State Department official and managing editor of Time magazine Rick Stengel, “None of it ends at Columbia. I think, Rick, about watching the video that we’ve now all seen of Rumeysa Ozturk sort of being confronted on the street, the fact that there is not a stated crime, the fact that there is not a stated crime in the case of Mahmoud Khalil—like, I think to Alex’s point, I think some people look at this and they say, ‘Well, we don’t know that lack of transparency is by design on the part of this administration.’”
So far, we know that Ozturk co-wrote an op-ed that repeated blood libel claims of genocide against Israel and demanded Tufts University divest from Israel.
But the article Christy supplied as proof that Ozturk “repeated blood libel claims of genocide” made no such assertion, and it’s not a crime to call for a university to divest from Israel.
Geoffrey Dickens whined in an April 1 post:
On March 27 the Trump administration scored a big win with the Virginia arrest of a top MS-13 leader. The day before (March 26) alleged Hamas-supporter and Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk was picked up by ICE agents.
So which arrest did the leftist news outlets care more about? The arrest of the Turkish student Ozturk.
From March 26 (when the cables first started reporting on Ozturk’s arrest) through March 27 ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and MSNBC devoted a total of 119 minutes, 18 seconds to the Ozturk case, but just 11 minutes, 42 seconds to the MS-13 leader capture.
That’s ten times more coverage to Ozturk than the capture of MS-13 leader Henrry Josue Villatoro Santos.
Dickens did not explain why the arrest of Santos deserved more coverage than that of Ozturk. Meanwhile, it has since been revealed that the State Department determined that the Trump administration had not produced any evidence of terrorist links or anti-Semitic activity by Ozturk.