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Ohio Taxpayer-Funded News Source Kicks Off Memorial Day Weekend with COVID Tribute Video, Gets Backlash
The Ohio Star ^ | May 30, 2021 | Jack Windsor

Posted on 05/30/2021 9:09:08 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat

Memorial Day is a federal holiday honoring and mourning the men and women who died while in performance of their duties in the U.S. Military. An Ohio state-funded news outlet chose to kickoff Memorial Day weekend with a video tribute to Ohioans who suffered COVID-related deaths.

“This Memorial Day weekend, we remember some of the nearly 20,000 Ohio husbands and wives, parents and grandparents, siblings and loved ones lost to COVID-19 with the words of those who knew them best,” read the Tweet from the Statehouse News Bureau.

The video was published on Twitter Friday evening and at the same time made available for PBS affiliates to publish in their individual markets – the report was assembled by Jo Ingles for the State of Ohio Show, a production of the Statehouse News Bureau, which is funded by the Broadcast Educational Media Commission.

Out of nearly 60 comments on the tweet (at the time of this report), all but one expressed disapproval...

(Excerpt) Read more at theohiostar.com ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: covid19; memorialday; ohio
I wonder how many of the 20,000 were elderly veterans who did not get the treatments for Covid that would have saved their lives.
1 posted on 05/30/2021 9:09:08 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
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To: Lowell1775

For your consideration.


2 posted on 05/30/2021 9:09:26 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat ("Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering")
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To: CheshireTheCat

Republicans like Mike DeWine the Governor of Ohio have imposed Chinese Communist measures on the people of Ohio to combat a virus originating in Communist China.

Their propaganda also reeks of Chinese Communism.


3 posted on 05/30/2021 9:28:00 AM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODYS BUSINESS, REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Libs trying to repurpose the holiday, like they are doing with 9/11 commemoration and Columbus Day.


4 posted on 05/30/2021 11:49:48 AM PDT by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things.)
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Libs trying to repurpose the holiday, like they are doing with 9/11 commemoration and Columbus Day

They also redefine words. Now you are a 'hero' if you are a teacher teaching Zoom classes or you just show up to your job at the grocery store.

5 posted on 05/30/2021 2:05:35 PM PDT by Right Brother
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To: ADemocratNoMore; Akron Al; arbee4bush; agrace; ATOMIC_PUNK; Badeye; big bad easter bunny; ...

OHIO PING!
Please let me know if you want on or off the Ohio Ping list.

Ohio Taxpayer-Funded News Source Kicks Off Memorial Day Weekend with COVID Tribute Video, Gets Backlash
The Ohio Star ^ | May 30, 2021 | Jack Windsor
Posted on 5/30/2021, 12:09:08 PM by CheshireTheCat


6 posted on 06/01/2021 4:59:31 AM PDT by Lowell1775
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