"The Minnesota Star Tribune is the state's biggest newspaper, and has been doing an excellent job of covering every angle of "Operation Metro Surge" - the federal government's mass deportation effort that started in December. But it is also competing in a real-time news environment where everyone is a reporter, and cellphone videos and social media posts are widely distributed."
"We are very careful. We know that a video that appears to show something does not mean that that is exactly what happened. Our language is careful. And we recognize we're not going to have every single video first, obviously. Our job is to verify it, and to watch it closely, and to slow it down a thousand times, to try to get"
The Minnesota Star Tribune is the state's largest newspaper and leads coverage of Operation Metro Surge, the federal mass deportation effort that began in December. Reporting competes with real-time citizen journalism as cellphone videos and social media spread footage quickly, including early circulation of the killing of protester Alex Pretti via Reddit. The newsroom emphasizes careful verification, measured language, and technical analysis of videos, slowing footage to establish facts. The paper recognizes it will not capture every viral clip first and focuses on verification and contextual reporting to set itself apart.
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