https://www.wsj.com/articles/notabl...isease-11641760915?mod=hp_opin_pos_4#cxrecs_s Notable & Quotable: A CNN Epiphany on Covid ‘We need to recognize that getting Covid isn’t a moral failing!’ Jan. 9, 2022 5:14 pm ET From a Jan. 4 Twitter thread by CNN’s Chris Cillizza : I’ve noticed something amid this Omicron surge that’s made me reconsider the first 20 months of this pandemic. For months and months, no one I came into contact with admitted they had Covid. Not neighbors. Not co-workers. Not friends. Not acquaintances. No one. Except that, with Omicron surging and lots and lots of people now getting it, I’ve found some of these same people telling me they had it last fall or at the start of the pandemic or whenever. Which is fascinating to me. Because it suggests that they were embarrassed or scared to say they (or their family) had it before. Why? Probably not one reason for everyone, honestly. But I do think societally we unknowingly turned having Covid into some sort of judgment on your character. Like, getting Covid was a sign you weren’t being responsible or careful enough. . . . We need to recognize that getting Covid isn’t a moral failing! It’s a super infectious disease that you can protect against, sure, but can’t guarantee you won’t get it. Appeared in the January 10, 2022, print edition as 'Notable & Quotable: Stigma.'
The lies no longer shock me, its become the "norm" for fox and the gop alike...........we now live in 2 different worlds
I'm just trying to imagine Obama or Biden asking out loud what Anderson Cooper and Don Lemon think about a policy decision. Nevermind I can't imagine it.
Its not asking for an opinion... or accepting their advice or input. I suspect past presidents have taken counsel from people in news media in the past (GWB hired Tony Snow as his press secretary, past presidents would listen to Cronkite). But trump of course, went to such an extreme to bring people in from fox news and its clear fox news personalities had direct dialog with trump.
cable news cost money so if people are willing to pay for CNN and Fox? WHY AREN'T THEY PAYING FOR CLUTCHFANS??
Turley fans rejoice! another political hack essay “She Can Write Any #$@!% Thing She Wants”: Totenberg Slams NPR’s Own Ombudsman Over Debunked Gorsuch Story https://jonathanturley.org/2022/01/...rs-own-ombudsman-over-debunked-gorsuch-story/ excerpt: Notably, these are three jurists who interpret the Constitution, statutes, treaties, and agreements for a living. All three read the Totenberg report and felt compelled to issue rare public statements to refute the story. NPR’s ombudsman found the story in need of clarification and their interpretation of the story was shared by everyone who heard the report (though Fox News’ Shannon Bream quickly and correctly challenged the report with her own sources denying the story). They understood NPR as saying that Gorsuch refused to wear a mask after Roberts asked all of his colleagues to do so to protect Sotomayor. That interpretation was readily apparent by the ragefest on cable news and the Internet as media figures lined up to denounce Gorsuch as a type of viral homicidal maniac. In response to the justices, Totenberg insisted that she never said that Gorsuch was directly asked by Roberts to wear a mask and did not say that he rebuffed a request from Sotomayor. However, Totenberg pushed the false narrative of the story as it went viral. Totenberg tweeted the following description of her story: “Gorsuch refuses to mask up to protect Sotomayor.” Strangely, Totenberg seemed to argue that her much promoted piece was really not much news at all. Roberts may not have asked anyone to wear masks and Sotomayor’s remote participation may have had nothing to do with Gorsuch. Indeed, even if Gorsuch wore the common cloth mask, it would not, according to various studies, afford her real protection against the variant. The problem how virtually everyone understood her story as evidenced by the coverage. NPR stood by the story even though its own ombudsman suggested that it should be clarified. Totenberg immediately ran with the NPR support and backhanded the ombudsman: NPR reporter David Gura went even further and suggested that the justices might simply be lying and we should not take their account over that of Nina Totenberg. Gura tweeted “I [sic] surprised at how many Supreme Court correspondents I admire are passing along a statement from two justices that is at best false without any context whatsoever.” Totenberg went on to say that, as a journalist, she did not even read the views of NPR’s own ombudsman review: “I haven’t even looked at it, and I don’t care to look at it because I report to the news division, she does not report to the news division.” The NPR story is the latest example of rage politics and how the underlying truth is immaterial to the narrative. I wrote earlier that it really does not matter that the story was false or misleading. As expected, the media simply moved on without admitting errors. It is a pattern that we have seen repeatedly. We have discussed the false reporting in controversies ranging from the Lafayette Park protests to the Nicholas Sandmann controversy to the Russian collusion scandal to cases like the Rittenhouse trial. We are left with a zen-like “tree-falling-in-the-forest” paradox: it is not fake news if the news will not admit to faking it. That fact is that people like an ombudsman can “write any ******* thing” they want but, if it is not reported, it matters little. Gorsuch “loves Covid” and wants to kill a liberal colleague . . . whether he does or not. more hackery at the link
have you noticed the people here who post the legacy news media they claim to hate? which they still don't understand 1. legacy media getting killed by independent content creators 2. there's no real state media, because we're not a communist country, they are CORPORATIONS 3. This Tucker guy , do you think he wants MORE Retweets or less Retweets? How does he get paid? more viewers or less? Why are people who don't like his show constantly reposting his show? That's like a Rockets fan reposting Utah Jazz games, EVERY DAY
