Jeff Smith's latest column for Recoil magazine, titled "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free... just kidding" has been posted in the commentary section of the site. In it, Jeff looks at the media's coverage of the immigrant rights protests that have swept across the country:
It has been hard to ignore the news reports on all the organized opposition to immigration legislation that would criminalize in the US who are undocumented and anyone who associates with them. Los Angeles and Dallas each had half a million marchers, Chicago 300,000, even little old Grand Rapids had roughly 10,000 people in the streets demanding their rights. The news media has certainly responded to what some are calling the "new civil rights movement," but the coverage has been limited to reporting only the visible actions with no substantive investigation into the complexities of the issue.
Read "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free... just kidding"
