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CNN’s Hall Monitors Clutch Their Pearls Over OAN Asking About Media Focus on Wuhan Virus Name
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Posted on 03/19/2020 1:45:44 PM PDT by Impala64ssa

Self-awareness is apparently in short supply these days among CNN media hall monitors.

For the past week, the media have focused incessantly on what President Trump and other Republicans call the Wuhan coronavirus. Teeth have been thoroughly gnashed over the connecting of the current pandemic to China, who’s government lied and helped propagate the spread of the disease, killing thousands along the way. Even as the Chinese have waged an information war against the U.S. to shift blame, the mainstream media have been right there to serve as pawns, repeating nonsensical charges and focusing on irrelevant arguments.

Today, Chanel Rion of OANN decided to ask about the media’s obsession with woke virus naming vs. actually reporting important information to public. That made the usual suspects very, very upset.

I like the sniping by Stelter, as if CNN isn’t currently languishing below Food Network shows, trailing every other major news network in ratings. Maybe that’s an insult he shouldn’t be leveling, but again, self-awareness seems to be an unknown quantity here.

Not to be outdone, Olivier Darcy decided to post this as if he’s some high school kid trying to bully people.

Ah, yes, because the media pearl clutching over calling it the Chinese virus is totally helpful in halting the spread of the Wuhan flu or something. I mean, come on, there’s noway Darcy is actually this dense. He has to just be trolling at this point. Also, how much a jerk do you have to be to not just say Rion’s name? Instead she’s the “OAN personality,” like she’s got the plague or something.

Here’s what the media don’t get to do. They don’t get to spend days freaking out over what the virus is called and then lecture others on focusing on relevant coverage. The question by Davidson was perfectly reasonable given the obsession the media have been showing the last week. Stelter and Darcy know that, but they choosing to instead set their self-awareness on fire and preen.


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It's the WUHAN virus. It came from WUHAN, CHINA. And there ain't a CHINAMAN'S CHANCE of changing that.
1 posted on 03/19/2020 1:45:44 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
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Spain called and has a complaint about the Spanish Flu.


2 posted on 03/19/2020 1:49:03 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: Impala64ssa

Yep, the New Wu Flu.


3 posted on 03/19/2020 1:49:52 PM PDT by Rennes Templar (Heaven has a wall and gates. Hell has open borders.)
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As have the residents of Lyme, CT complaining about Lyme Disease.


4 posted on 03/19/2020 1:50:04 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Impala64ssa

CHI-KNEE FRU


5 posted on 03/19/2020 1:50:53 PM PDT by DainBramage
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To: FreedomPoster

Have the French kvetched about the French Disease yet?


6 posted on 03/19/2020 1:51:40 PM PDT by decal (I'm not rude, I don't suffer fools is all.)
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Next they'll be wanting to rename Chinese Checkers.


7 posted on 03/19/2020 1:53:04 PM PDT by deoetdoctrinae (Gun-free zones are playgrounds for criminals.)
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Well, some people from CT deserve a butt kicking for foisting Da Nang Dick Blumenthal on us in the Senate, but that's beside the point. 🙄😡
8 posted on 03/19/2020 1:53:32 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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9 posted on 03/19/2020 1:55:31 PM PDT by McGruff
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Just print up some “Virus Free Zone” signs, LIBS. It will run like crazy, crazy.


10 posted on 03/19/2020 1:56:52 PM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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Fainting_Couch
11 posted on 03/19/2020 1:57:51 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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The news media is running around like a bunch of teens at a stop light doing the Chinese Fire Drill!


12 posted on 03/19/2020 2:03:19 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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Kung Flu


13 posted on 03/19/2020 2:05:38 PM PDT by sickoflibs (Elect tough guy Joe Biden : Joe wrote the bill that banned the AR-14s)
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Chanel Rion triggered some Snowflakes, and they’re melting.
14 posted on 03/19/2020 2:09:58 PM PDT by windsorknot
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OK... CHINESE CORONA NOVEL Virus, or CNN Virus! How’s that?


15 posted on 03/19/2020 2:26:53 PM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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Uh...that would be CCN
FAIL!
DUH!


16 posted on 03/19/2020 2:29:34 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: Impala64ssa

And let’s not forget the American Legion Vets who had a NASTY disease named after them.

All because they had a convention in a hotel that hadn’t cleaned their A/C.


17 posted on 03/19/2020 2:33:03 PM PDT by left that other site (If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all. (Isaiah 7:9))
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There’s a very simple explanation. China pays top dollar and grants complete access for mind numbing loyalty. They’re all bought and paid for to change the name and deflect attention away from China.


18 posted on 03/19/2020 2:36:00 PM PDT by PushinTin (Politicians are like diapers, they need to be changed often and for the same reason...)
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I think calling some nasty critter a Norway Rat is offensive.


19 posted on 03/19/2020 2:39:41 PM PDT by euram
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Then they’ll really go bananas over the Black Plague.


20 posted on 03/19/2020 2:55:24 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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