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Posts from the ‘Dissecting the Local News’ Category

2March 18, 2025GRPD creates counter narrative about incident from last weekend, while Chief Winstrom claims the cops have regained community trust

0March 2, 2025Another misleading MLive article about ICE, cops and Sanctuary cities in Michigan

1February 25, 2025MLive reports on land sale for new soccer stadium, but omits the concerns of residents and ignores the DeVos connection in all of it

0February 16, 2025MLive doesn’t cite the groups behind the local Sanctuary campaigns and creates a paywall for their poll on whether Grand Rapids should be a Sanctuary City

0February 14, 2025Grand Rapids and Kent County officials go out of their way to say they are cooperating with ICE, while MLive omits the organizations pushing for Sanctuary policies

0February 11, 20252024 Local News Monitoring Project: Misinformation, omission, denial and the failure to serve the public good

0January 29, 2025State of Michigan is giving away $2.8 million of public money to build a road for a private weapons company

0January 24, 2025Local news stories center cops and the law on immigration matters, omit the affected community and those who are actively defying unjust immigration laws

0January 22, 2025Grand Rapids Hip Hop station does a story about the effort to get Grand Rapids to become a Sanctuary City

0January 15, 2025Grand Rapids news agencies cite far right organization that doesn’t like BIPOC students benefiting from scholarships