The keys to a social experiment
On Tuesday the Evening news It included an analysis of the anti-immigration raids by ICE agents in Minneapolis following the murder of Alex Pretti. Journalist Nicolás Valle developed the essential elements of this situation to understand the how and the why. His account had an interpretive component, because he focused on details that went beyond what was seen in the images. But that was precisely what made the piece so interesting, especially given the absence of any other program on the network that could delve deeper into these aspects. Valle showed the various guises in which ICE agents patrolled the city: the types of tactical uniforms, the ways to identify them, the weapons of war, and the armored vehicles. The journalist emphasized the symbolic value of this attire: "The police cease to be a service and become an instrument of internal domination." The camouflage clothing, he explained, transforms the agents into combatants. Valle connected this fact to the willingness of the citizenry to submit through the construction of a sense of emergency.
Another magnificent aspect of this information was the way in which Nicolás Valle broke with the usual narratives of NewscastHe broke up the videos with his interventions from the newsroom desk, as if he were introducing the videos we were watching. It's a technique the news program could perhaps use from time to time to lend authority and value to the professionals in the department. It departs from the question-and-answer format in the studio with Cruanyes, which is more basic and risks becoming too routine. Valle broke the explanatory clichés that the visual reform of the Newscast It has not been fully resolved.
Valle posed a new question for viewers: why are these raids happening in Minneapolis and not in major cities like New York or Los Angeles, where entire neighborhoods are inhabited by undocumented immigrants? The journalist offered the answer by explaining how this strategy aligned with Donald Trump's psychology.
If you missed it, retrieve the fragment from NewscastThese analytical pieces inevitably possess a journalistic authorship dimension, but this does not invalidate their rigor. They incorporate causality and are sustained by their coherence with the images. They allow the viewer's perspective to evolve and become more comprehensive in subsequent reports: images are no longer perceived in the same way. Valle, incidentally, defined this citizen repression as "the execution of a social experiment." A detail that could easily go unnoticed but is highly relevant: these are methods that can reconfigure the relationship between the state and society worldwide and assess their global acceptance. This is why this more analytical approach is key: because it allows for a more reflective reception of the events.