This new year is barely a week old, and already it has been a trying time for the nation’s media complex. In quick succession, news stories erupted that were inconvenient to prevailing narratives, so the collective press corps has had to work on deflections and turning attention on those delivering the inconvenient news, done to avoid delving into the matters at hand.
The extradition of Nicolas Maduro had the No Kings-supportive outlets defending an entrenched socialist authoritarian. They had to ignore the millions of Venezuelans pouring out into the streets in celebration, and accuse President Trump of criminality for capturing the dictator on whose head former Pres. Joe Biden had placed a bounty.
Then the Minnesota fraud scandal was completely expanded due to the investigations posted by Nick Shirley, and the media responded accordingly: They pooled their investigation skills in order to expose…Nick Shirley.
White House Drops a Big ‘Find Out’ Video on Maduro, Shows Sharp Contrast With Biden Failure
Billions of dollars involving dozens of agencies, and possibly rising to the top of the state’s political structure, had the press focused instead on the YouTube personality delivering facts. It was unclear what had made the news outlets more angry; that he was exposing Democratic Party graft, or that he showed them how to do their jobs. This kid was so ineffective at his job that he got the governor to back off from the upcoming election.
Now we have the episode in Minneapolis involving the ICE shooting that took the life of a mother and activist. A tragic event that no one cheered for occurred, but the press industry could not refrain from emotional fervor and would not wait for the facts to come in. Instead, rushing headlong into supposition and making accusatory commentary was required, and they became ensnared as a result.
Accusations of murder have been legion, and calls for Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem to be impeached already are circulating. When contradictory visual evidence emerged, the press delivered what they declared to be final summations of the incident, insisting that the agent involved was not actually struck by Renee Nicolle Good’s car, despite one angle showing the impact. The Washington Post and the New York Times gave their Zapruder-level analysis, and they reported definitively that the agent had not been struck.
Then a new video emerged.
BREAKING: Alpha News has obtained cellphone footage showing perspective of federal agent at center of ICE-involved shooting in Minneapolis pic.twitter.com/p2wks0zew0
— Alpha News (@AlphaNews) January 9, 2026
This was a cell phone video shot by the very agent involved in the shooting, and it delivered quite a bit of narrative-busting details. Renee Good and her wife are seen as antagonists on the scene. We hear the directives for her to step out of the vehicle, and she does see the agent in front of her. Then we see and hear the impact of her hitting the agent. As a result, the press again reacted – in attack mode, on the veracity of the content and on the source of the video.
At MS NOW, the network’s extremism correspondent Brandy Zadrozny had a wild approach to this video: Why was the officer filming?!
The main takeaway from MSNOW’s Brandy Zadrozny on the new video showing the ICE Agent’s POV?
“Why is this person filming??”
Leftists suddenly don’t seem to like law enforcement POV footage. pic.twitter.com/XNKlsNRfzN
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) January 9, 2026
The press has long promoted law enforcement to wear body cameras, but now that disqualifying evidence emerges, the very thing they had called for becomes a bothersome element. ICE agents do not wear body cams, so this agent was likely using his own phone to gather details and record the interaction. Then, obliviously, Zadrozny, at the end of the clip, declares citizens have a right to film their actions in public. So, is her stance then that law enforcement does not possess this same right?
This new clip of the shooting was made public by Alpha News, a Minnesota-based independent media outlet. After posting this video the outlet – not the contents of the video – became the focus of some outlets in the media. CNN’s “Reliable Sources” reached out to ask about the news site.
Likewise, Mother Jones contacted Alpha News with a series of questions that had little to no bearing on the content of the video: How did they acquire it? Did a connection with local police aid in obtaining it? Do they feel the video exonerated ICE? It is common practice in the press to not reveal sources, yet here is a reporter wanting an outlet to disclose its source.
In that ensuing Mother Jones piece, written by Katie Herchenroeder, unrelated details are introduced to denigrate the outlet and ostensibly discredit the video, somehow. The site is described in disqualifying fashion as a “conservative Minnesota outlet.” (An amusing casting of shade by the decidedly Leftist Mother Jones.) Also, there is a need to bring up past supportive coverage of Derek Chauvin, and to cite a senior reporter being married to a former police union official. Why, if not to contend that the site, and thus the video, are deemed invalid?
These are details that have ZERO connections at all to the shooting, let alone the contents of the video. You also get the revealing approach to stories like this in the questioning. Asking if Alpha News feels the video “exonerates” the agent is a sign that there is an expectation of injecting opinion into the reporting. This is a reporter who appears to operate as if making declarative commentary is a part of journalism, rather than simply posting the video as evidence and allowing the content to stand as is. (Ms. Herchenroeder did not immediately respond to a request for comment.)
What is clear is that once this video from the scene of the shooting became public, there is a scramble in the press. The framing of the victim as an innocent poet, the reporting of an ICE shooting for no good reason, and the denial of the vehicle striking the ICE agent have all fallen apart. Now, outlets like The Times and The Post look desperate in recalibrating the details, and other outlets resort to shoot-the-messenger tactics to deflect from uncomfortable details emerging.
This is the result of a media complex incapable of waiting for the full story to emerge. It also shows that narratives are considered more important than accurately reporting the facts.
Editor’s Note: The mainstream media continues to deflect, gaslight, spin, and lie about President Trump, his administration, and conservatives.
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