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Biggest Fake News Story of New Decade?
self ^ | April 2, 2020 | self

Posted on 04/02/2020 3:29:56 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie

Last Thursday March 26, 2020 the biggest fake news story perhaps in the past year, was all over the tv news, including Fox News. The evening news programs reported that America has the most cases of COVID-19 in the world, which apparently is the CCP’s propaganda line. This story, although unlikely and illogical, and entirely unproveable, but was presented as factual.

Now think about this for one minute: China has 1.4 billion people, USA 340 million. The virus has been prevalent there much longer. The Chinese have a history of lying. Why would anyone believe them? Hillary Clinton mocked the President for being #1 in CV-19 cases. This story was very unlikely to be true,had no documentation, yet no one challenged it. It was on every news program. Where did this story come from? Is this Chinese propaganda? Why did no one look at it skeptically?

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KEYWORDS: anotherdamnedvanity; anotherstupidvanity; coronavanity; covid19; virus; wuhan
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To: The_Media_never_lie

I’m now fairly convinced this whole thing was a scam. A similar story:

There was a guy that would come on to Coast to Coast about 20 years ago and always accuately predict earthquakes on the “ring of fire”. It was amazing. Sure, some of them were not very big, but it always happened. Then one day I did some research (as search engines came of age) and discovered there is constant activity on the ring, so all predictions will come true.

Well, looks like that is what has happened here. We have been bamboozled. This sort of virus happens every year.
for all we know, many of last year’s deaths were this same virus.

Watch and learn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLiputnTdeg


21 posted on 04/02/2020 3:55:42 PM PDT by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

bkmk


22 posted on 04/02/2020 3:58:28 PM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: Sergio

When it comes to taking on the Chicoms over this I really think we should be ‘leading from behind’ on this one. They were affected just as much and if this doesn’t raise their hackles we should pull out of Europe and Asia. I say form a league of Democracies with no military pacts.


23 posted on 04/02/2020 4:06:54 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

>>Who or what agency is giving our news people their talking points?

the cabal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JournoList

Ezra Klein controlled the forum’s membership and limited it to “several hundred left-leaning bloggers, political reporters, magazine writers, policy wonks and academics.”[2] Klein justified excluding conservatives from participation as “not about fostering ideology but preventing a collapse into flame war. The emphasis is on empiricism, not ideology.”[3] Posts within JournoList were intended only to be made and read by its members.[4] Klein defended the forum structure saying that it ensured “that folks feel safe giving off-the-cuff analysis and instant reactions.”[2] JournoList member and Time columnist Joe Klein said the off-the-record nature of the forum was necessary because “candor is essential and can only be guaranteed by keeping these conversations private.”[2] The existence of JournoList was first publicly revealed in a July 27, 2007 blog post by Mickey Kaus.[5]

However, the forum did not attract serious attention until March 17, 2009 when an article published on Politico detailed the nature of the forum and the extent of its membership.[2] The Politico article set off debate within the Blogosphere over the ethics of participating in JournoList and raised questions about its overall purpose. The first public excerpt of a discussion within JournoList was posted by Mickey Kaus on his blog on March 26, 2009.[6]


24 posted on 04/02/2020 4:08:42 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Everyone knows Hillary was corrupt, lied, destroyed documents, and influenced witnesses. Rat crime.)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Exactly! Most are owned by the CCP.

I bet some are on the payroll.


25 posted on 04/02/2020 4:08:50 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Don’t worry. All is well.

The number of cases is going up very slowly. Today’s number is not all in, yet, but I’m sure it won’t go much higher. Yesterday’s total was 212,747. And besides, look at the deaths to recoveries ratio—not bad at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic#Epidemiology

United States

Cases 240,120

Deaths 5,794

Recoveries 10,365


26 posted on 04/02/2020 4:10:55 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: trublu

The virus came to the United States at the same time as it went to Europe, via all the Chinese who travel back and forth.


27 posted on 04/02/2020 4:13:40 PM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

ChiCom propaganda


28 posted on 04/02/2020 4:14:13 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: The_Media_never_lie
It came from the CCP and our traitorous, swampy media ran with. It's corruption.
29 posted on 04/02/2020 4:15:46 PM PDT by Vision (Obama corrupted, sought to weaken and fundamentally change America; he didn't plan on being stopped.)
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To: jarwulf

No one was freaking out on March 4th in DC or in the media.

On that night Garth Brooks was awarded the Library of Congress Gershwin Award for Popular Song. It was held in an auditorium full of people. No social distancing. Lots of hugging, hand shaking, etc.

Members of the audience include members of Congress (Pelosi, McCarthy, Stonyer, Lehey, etc) and others.

Now I’m supposed to believe in one month the end is near?

Influenza A and B kick the crap out of this SRS virus. More cases, more hospitalization, more spikes and flats, and more deaths. With vaccines.

And no economic destruction.

So I’m not listening to lying pols who were partying like crazy one little month ago.

BTW it was on PBS just last Sunday.


30 posted on 04/02/2020 4:17:51 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Might as well cut your leg off to cure a headache. Destroy America because of a flu.)
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To: Secret Agent Man
Early on it was decided by libtard pols and their media allies they could use this crisis as a way to go after Trump, get a second impeachment reason.


I agree with you 100 per cent. But puleeeezeeee! If the media disinformation complex, is going to be generating fake news, they will have to do better than this! And shame on you, too Fox News.

Yes, any 7th grader who is interested in politics could have spotted this as fake news. They must be somewhat believable!

And why have so many networks, etc., if they all use the same talking points?

I am still trying to find out how many fatalities there were from the Tienenmen Squart massacre.

31 posted on 04/02/2020 4:18:14 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( Stop the fearmongering! Post flu statistics along side COVID-19 statistics!)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

It came from China (false data) first into the boardrooms full of people in our own media who hate Donald Trump.

Every potential story in our media has to be viewed with a filter because they frame every story to take shots at the President.

Period.

This is your explanation. Our own media is parroting propaganda from China so that they can claim the US has the most cases and criticize Trump for it.


32 posted on 04/02/2020 4:19:31 PM PDT by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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To: ifinnegan

“Reported cases.” All the anecdotal and video info leakage from China suggest strongly that their Reported Cases understate their problem by a multiple, perhaps a large multiple.


33 posted on 04/02/2020 4:22:13 PM PDT by arthurus (covfefe1^)
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To: volunbeer
Our own media is parroting propaganda from China so that they can claim the US has the most cases and criticize Trump for it.


Yes, that is the way it was presented by every media outlet that I saw. And, anyone with a healthy dose of skepticism should have realized there is absolutely no way to confirm this story, and the story is probably not true. But they all ran with in lockstep. Even Fox News!
34 posted on 04/02/2020 4:27:33 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( Stop the fearmongering! Post flu statistics along side COVID-19 statistics!)
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To: arthurus
“Reported cases.” All the anecdotal and video info leakage from China suggest strongly that their Reported Cases understate their problem by a multiple, perhaps a large multiple.


What is a meager order of magnitude, or a couple orders of magnitude? Decimals mean something, but maybe not to a journalist.
35 posted on 04/02/2020 4:30:03 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( Stop the fearmongering! Post flu statistics along side COVID-19 statistics!)
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To: trublu
There is simply no way that China is being truthful about their numbers.


How could anyone who thought about this for 5 minutes have not reached the same conclusion?

I actually was taken in by the reports for a number of hours, before I started thinking about the absurdity of the push and tone of the story. Then my next thoughts were "how would they ever know", and "why are they using this tone, reporting something like this that can never be proved, nor disproved"?

36 posted on 04/02/2020 4:34:17 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( Stop the fearmongering! Post flu statistics along side COVID-19 statistics!)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

The COVID 19 Sick Map which is nothing more than “reported cases”, “reported deaths” and “reported recoveries”

At best it’s misleading and what is “reported” is government specific so if you believe the Chinese and every other country than I guess you buy into the BS.


37 posted on 04/02/2020 4:34:18 PM PDT by maddog55
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To: Fledermaus
Influenza A and B kick the crap out of this SRS virus. More cases, more hospitalization, more spikes and flats, and more deaths. With vaccines. And no economic destruction.

Good question. Do you have any hypothesis for why Trump has done this? Usually discussions like this go better if the person raising the question has a hypothesis.

38 posted on 04/02/2020 4:36:28 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: maddog55
At best it’s misleading and what is “reported” is government specific so if you believe the Chinese and every other country than I guess you buy into the BS.


I do not think any rational person could buy into this b.s. It is a sad state of the US media disinformational complex, that this story was presented as real news.

The story you just heard was fake, and the names have been changed to protect the guilty.

39 posted on 04/02/2020 4:40:39 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( Stop the fearmongering! Post flu statistics along side COVID-19 statistics!)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Where are you getting this, “Even FOX News!” angle from?

FOX has been carrying water for China ever since Amnesty lost public sway.

FOX = GOPe = Free Traitors


40 posted on 04/02/2020 4:48:17 PM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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