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Washington Examiner: No institution has failed the public worse than the news media during the COVID-19 pandemic
No institution has failed the public worse during the COVID-19 pandemic than the news media.
It seems impossible that this should be the case, especially considering the federal government’s sluggish, incoherent, and unfocused handling of this crisis. But even the federal government has managed to get some things right. The same cannot be said for our self-important Fourth Estate.
From the very beginning, corporate media got the story wrong, publishing article after article assuring readers that the virus was not as dangerous or serious as it sounded.
“Is this going to be a deadly pandemic?” Vox asked on social media on Jan. 31. “No.”
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WNU Editor: The above article was posted a month ago, but it is even more true today. Doubly so because the blow-back against their reporting has intensified in the past few weeks .... NYT Journo Becomes Triggered After WH Press Sec. Kayleigh McEnany Calls Her out for Spreading Fake News (Red State).
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