Adam Sobel: If we were concerned with losing crime, we wouldn't do 90% of the stuff we do. Sobel: The reason that these horrific crimes routinely in our prison system don't make viral videos is because they're not put on TV every day. He says it's difficult to generate this kind of demagoguery when you saw Tanyana Gana criticized for being a racist and violent woman who should have been locked up longer than she was. "I'm trying to make an argument barrel forms doesn't fail," he said.
In this public News Brief, we discuss the nominally progressive news network's lies and omissions when covering efforts to reduce the US's unprecedented jail and prison population.