Posted on 04/04/2020 7:40:54 PM PDT by kevcol
The print media may actually be thankful for a sudden death to a long, and I mean lonnnnng, sickness.
1. No
2. H*ll no.
3. Eff no.
4. No effin way.
5. Don’t even think about it.
6. Go to 1
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In four words: No way in hell.
Think of the poor canaries!
WHEN & IF the MAJOR “media outlets” start TELLING THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH & NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH, yes. Otherwise let the BILLIONAIRE LEFTIST owners “go soak their heads”.
THE WASHINGTON COMPOST & THE NY SLIMES will NOT be missed, if they should fold, by anyone but the MORON LEFTISTS.
Yours, TMN78247
If government can’t bail out churches a la the 1st Amendment, then they certainly can’t bail out the press which is under the same Constitutional umbrella.
what the...?
save the FakeNewsMSM who wouldn’t even accurately report Sumption?
3 Apr: Spiked UK: ‘The alleged cure is immensely worse than the disease’
Peter Hitchens on the dangerous folly of the Covid-19 shutdown.
(Hitchens) joined spiked editor Brendan O’Neill for the latest episode of The Brendan O’Neill Show. What follows is an edited extract. Listen to the full conversation here...
Hitchens: I have a quote here from Jonathan Sumption’s interview on The World At One on Monday because it simply hasn’t been stressed enough in the coverage of what he said. They have gone on about what he said about the police, which was a marginal part of what he said. His key point was this:
‘The real question is, is this serious enough to warrant putting most of our population into house imprisonment, wrecking our economy for an indefinite period, destroying businesses that honest and hardworking people have taken years to build up, saddling future generations with debt, depression, stress, heart attacks, suicides and unbelievable distress inflicted on millions of people who are not especially vulnerable, and will suffer only mild symptoms or none at all?’
Actually, that’s exactly what I think. But I’m not a former Supreme Court judge. I’m not one of Britain’s most distinguished lawyers. And I’m not one of Britain’s most distinguished historians. I’m not the deliverer of last year’s Reith Lectures. This is a perfectly valid sentiment expressed by somebody with considerable authority and wisdom. And it isn’t even reported by the media when he says it. They leave it out of the reports of what he says because no one is prepared to confront this...ETC
https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/04/03/the-alleged-cure-is-immensely-worse-than-the-disease/
I suspect the House will certainly try to throw a lifeline to the ones who most crafted and aided their embarrassing, mendacious, and ineffective coup. In a just world they’d be swinging from the lamp posts by now. Let them starve.
what the...?
save the FakeNewsMSM who didn’t report Dr. Lee, except for Newsweek & Media Matters, who barely quoted him, but instead mocked Rush Limbaugh for daring to mention him!
1 Apr: Metro UK: UK has ‘overreacted’ to coronavirus outbreak and lockdown could be ‘less dramatic’, claims ex-NHS consultant
by Chris Davie
The UK has overreacted to the coronavirus outbreak and the current lockdown measures put in place to contain the virus could be less dramatic, according to a former NHS consultant pathologist...
But Dr John Lee, a retired professor of pathology, suggests that there has been a worldwide overreaction to coronavirus and a lack of testing means that governments have been unable to get an accurate understanding of the severity of the disease.
Dr Lee also believes that current evidence suggests coronavirus isn’t much worse than seasonal flu.
‘The key point I’m trying to make is that it’s very difficult to interpret any numbers without context for those numbers,’ Dr Lee told Sky News.
‘So the numbers we’ve been hearing of deaths do indeed sound very alarming and we’ve all been seeing very alarming pictures from around the world.
‘But the question is we can’t understand those numbers without knowing how they relate to other numbers related to deaths and disease.
‘My point is the way we compare diseases is by comparing death rates, the number of people who die of a disease compared to the number of people who got the disease.
‘And in this case we really have no idea at the moment how many people have actually had the disease because we haven’t been testing widely enough to actually understand those numbers.
‘We don’t know those certain yet but certainly there’s a growing body of informed opinion that feels the severity of this disease has been overestimated.
‘Whenever you look at the severity of the disease early in an epidemic it tends to overestimate it because you see the tip of the iceberg.
‘What you don’t see is all the people with no symptoms or very mild symptoms.
‘So there is evidence that this disease isn’t necessarily much worse than a seasonal flu.
‘But what we are seeing is a synchronisation of cases, so health services are being put under great pressure, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that when we look back on this disease in six months or a year’s time it would’ve turned out to be particularly exceptional or very exceptional.”...
‘What I’m saying is that actions have been taken only looking at one thing. The advice from the Government has been based only on the Covid figures, we haven’t had any assessment whatsoever of the harms being caused by this really remarkable action that’s been taken.”...
‘In dealing with the Covid cases we’ve been taking resources away from other cases that are in the health services, and the impact of that really isn’t known at the moment.
‘When the Prime Minister quite rightly said nine days ago he would follow the science, I think everybody would agree with that, it’s a very sensible thing to do. But following the science is different from following one group of scientists.
‘What you have to try to understand is that science is a discussion. And the Imperial model is based on a lot of assumptions, and on incomplete data, and it’s only one interpretation of the measurements we currently have.
‘What I’m saying is we need to continue to critically evaluate the all data that’s already there.
‘My assessment of the data, and as I said a great body of informed opinions’ assessment of the data, is that we are, on a global basis, overreacting to the disease.
‘This is the first pandemic of the media age. And that has had a big effect on how people perceive the disease.
‘The numbers do seem very alarming but I think if only the Government spokespeople and the mainstream media could present a more nuanced version of the numbers it would reduce people’s feeling of panic.”...
https://metro.co.uk/2020/04/01/uk-overreacted-coronavirus-outbreak-lockdown-less-dramatic-claims-ex-nhs-consultant-12491808/
FakeNewsMSM is all about inciting panic. bury them.
I second that, NO!
reporters and news outlets are covered as businesses in this rescue bill. So they’re already slated to get something.
They should’ve commandeered to print toilet paper.
Let’s finance their flights to Wuhan since there’s been zero reporting from the ground there.
NO!~!!
Now, now, if the government is paying the bills, shouldn’t they have a say in the content? I firmly believe in the separation of liberals from government.
Now, how about a multi-billion dollar bailout of churches?
I could just see every newspaper screaming about such a suggestion. If it’s not good for churches, you can go get people to actually pay for your product.
All I am seeing from these reporters is gotcha reporting. Nothing about the source of the virus, how we can prevent it ( from groceries etc.) . They have asked nothing but repetitive questions.
Hell no.
No.
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