The biggest issue, as I see it:
Why did the media initially label all the scientists who made the most logical presumption as “conspiracy theorists”? I mean, come on, man, the virus first ‘appeared’ in Wuhan, at the doorstep of a level 4 bio lab we knew to be researching gain of function? It was always most logical to look there first instead of a local wet market, which are everywhere in China.
We simply, in this competitive world, cannot be dismissing the most obvious because of political correctness.
Did China influence our media? Or, are our media people really this stupid?
“Did China influence our media? Or, are our media people really this stupid?”
Yes and Yes.
Of course the answer to your question is that the Democrats had absolutely no issues to run on and they needed and used COVID as their only issue. Biden was able to safely be locked in his basement while the corrupt MSM bludgeoned Trump for absolutely anything he said or did in response to COVID. Moreover, as you know, they also rode the COVID fear gambit to steal the election in part through fraudulent mail in voting. This has always been a hysterical scam by the deep state.
I don’t think China “influenced” the media so much as paid many parts of it an the political class off and got blackmail on some of them and politicians.
Of course, a good number are communists anyway, or at least fascists, and so were happy to oblige. The money was just an added incentive.
The media went from being a clown show, completely untrustworthy to the John Wayne Gacy show, with blood on their hands.
Three words explain the media reaction to this pandemic.....
Orange man bad
Look no further. Take away Covid and we are all here cheering the Trump second term today. Perhaps even taking away the lockdown and media push to villify any and all potential treatments of Covid so they could push fear, chaos, and lockdowns to crush the economy. They blamed Trump every day and all day. They told us he was not listening to the science and he was a kook who told people to drink bleach. They seized the opportunity and made the most of it. They dragged the “stop the spread” into November so they could have ballot harvesting and massive mail-in ballots with no chain of custody.
They played this perfectly if you understand their goal was all about getting rid of Trump and they cared little for life or economic issues for the American people.
Most of them are on the take in some way or another. Most of them are also true believers in communism which means that in addition to being on the take they are genuinely stupid.
“Did China influence our media? Or, are our media people really this stupid?”
Both. I think the media is both corrupt and stupid.
If the blame was put squarely on China, in 2020, it would have helped President Trump politically and severely damaged Bejing Biden. It’s really no more complicated than that.