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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 UTC

In 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.

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

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