Vanguard Analysis: Elite Media, Mass Incarceration, and the Propaganda of Good Intentions
Civil rights attorney Alec Karakatsanis accuses elite media institutions of helping to normalize mass incarceration by distorting the intentions behind it, and argues that the New York Times article glorifying a federal prosecutor’s career built on caging low-income people in the Bronx and Vermont is an example of this “Big Deception”.