n 1968, a government study called the Kerner Report
warned that the media was failing to report on the underlying problems
of race relations in the United States. Five decades later, we find
ourselves in the midst of another media crisis with grave consequences
for our fragile democracy: Major media organizations like the New York Times, Washington Post,
and National Public Radio (NPR) are regularly quoting representatives
of known white nationalist groups without context about the groups’
ideologies and often don’t present adequate responses.
In the last several months alone, the New York Times published an op-ed by Jerry Kammer, a senior research fellow at the anti-immigrant Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), NPR quoted CIS and the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), and The Washington Post cited CIS multiple times. All of these are stark examples of what journalists Juan González and Joseph Torres called the news media’s “deeply flawed national narrative: the creation myth of heroic European settlers battling an array of backward and violent non-white peoples to forge the world’s greatest democratic republic.”
This harmful white supremacist narrative and its chief proponents should be well-known to reporters and editors by now, but it seems the pull of access journalism and the drive for Trump scoops continues to cloud journalistic ethics. In brief, John Tanton, a white nationalist and eugenicist who died in 2019, was one of the founders of CIS and a network of anti-immigrant groups targeting different segments of civil society.
For more than 30 years, the group has published countless reports designed to pump misinformation into immigration discourse, starting within conservative outlets, but working across the media landscape. CIS has also distributed more than 2,000 articles from white nationalists and influential anti-Semites. CIS is not merely “a group that favors stricter immigration policies,” as it is routinely identified in the media. I
t is part of a network of anti-immigrant groups—including FAIR and Numbers USA—founded and funded by white nationalists who work to stop non-white migration to the U.S. In fact, CIS’s penchant for misrepresentation and obfuscation of facts in the pursuit of severely limiting immigration has led it to be dubbed the “False-Fact Think Tank.”
Read more at: News outlets must stop running white nationalist propaganda
In the last several months alone, the New York Times published an op-ed by Jerry Kammer, a senior research fellow at the anti-immigrant Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), NPR quoted CIS and the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), and The Washington Post cited CIS multiple times. All of these are stark examples of what journalists Juan González and Joseph Torres called the news media’s “deeply flawed national narrative: the creation myth of heroic European settlers battling an array of backward and violent non-white peoples to forge the world’s greatest democratic republic.”
This harmful white supremacist narrative and its chief proponents should be well-known to reporters and editors by now, but it seems the pull of access journalism and the drive for Trump scoops continues to cloud journalistic ethics. In brief, John Tanton, a white nationalist and eugenicist who died in 2019, was one of the founders of CIS and a network of anti-immigrant groups targeting different segments of civil society.
For more than 30 years, the group has published countless reports designed to pump misinformation into immigration discourse, starting within conservative outlets, but working across the media landscape. CIS has also distributed more than 2,000 articles from white nationalists and influential anti-Semites. CIS is not merely “a group that favors stricter immigration policies,” as it is routinely identified in the media. I
t is part of a network of anti-immigrant groups—including FAIR and Numbers USA—founded and funded by white nationalists who work to stop non-white migration to the U.S. In fact, CIS’s penchant for misrepresentation and obfuscation of facts in the pursuit of severely limiting immigration has led it to be dubbed the “False-Fact Think Tank.”
Read more at: News outlets must stop running white nationalist propaganda
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