Houston Chronicle (7/11/23 1 )
This week on CounterSpin: Listeners may have heard that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott installed barrels wrapped in razor wire in some parts of the Rio Grande to block migrants from crossing and harm those that try. As revealed 2 by the Houston Chronicle, Texas troopers have been ordered to push people back into the river, and to deny them water. The cruelty is obvious; the Department of Justice is talking about suing.
But there are other ways for immigration policy to be inhumane. Advocates have long declared 3 that Biden’s asylum restrictions (which look a lot like Trump’s asylum restrictions) are not just harmful but unlawful. And a federal judge has just agreed 4 . We learn about that from a participant in the case, Melissa Crow, director of litigation at the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies 5 .
New York Times (10/23/17 6 )
Also on the show: In October 2017, the New York Times ran a story 7 headlined “Why the Athletic Wants to Pillage Newspapers,” that began, “By the time you finish reading this article, the upstart sports news outlet called the Athletic 8 probably will have hired another well-known sportswriter from your local newspaper.” In January 2022, the Times bought the Athletic for $550 million, saying 9 that “as a stand-alone product…the Athletic is a great complement to the Times.”
It’s now July 2023, and the New York Times has announced 10 it’s shutting down its sports desk, outsourcing that reporting to…the Athletic. Dave Zirin 11 joins us to talk about that; he’s sports editor at The Nation, 12 host of the Edge of Sports 13 podcast, and author of many books, including A People’s History of Sports in the United States 14 .
Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look at some recent press coverage of Europe’s economy 15 .
The post Melissa Crow on Asylum Restrictions, Dave Zirin on NYT’s Vanishing Sports Section 16 appeared first on FAIR 17 .
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