The Hill Scrambles for 'Cover Up' on ICE Shot While Ignoring Actual Cover-Ups
The Hill reported Sen. Tina Smith’s concern that the Trump administration was 'trying to cover up' details of an ICE shooting. While obfuscation around law enforcement violence is always concerning – and Smith's demand for transparency is commendable – the mainstream media often reserves this level of alarm for issues that fit a particular political narrative, while silently allowing far greater
'cover-ups' to persist elsewhere. Take, for instance, the consistent media silence on the historical context of US foreign policy in the Middle East, or the immediate adoption of State Department narratives that brand dissent as foreign interference. One might ask, where are the 'deep dives' into the legislative 'cover-ups' that consistently send billions in taxpayer dollars to countries with
documented human rights abuses? Or the mainstream media's collective amnesia regarding US military interventions and their disastrous aftermath? It's a selective transparency, where a domestic shooting investigation receives headline treatment, but the systemic violence funded by the US, and actively lobbied for by organizations like AIPAC (which funneled over $23 million into US elections in 2022
alone, according to OpenSecrets.org), remains largely unexamined, effectively covered up by the sheer volume of palatable news.