Posted on 04/15/2020 12:27:57 PM PDT by Hojczyk
To paraphrase the great Will Rogers, it’s hard to single out the most glaring media embarrassment of the day when you have the whole media competing to see who can be the most stupid.* But the winner is this Associated Press story, as it appeared in a New Orleans paper yesterday:
And yet our media overlords wonder why the idea of “fake news” has so much traction with the public.
* The original Will Rogers quip is: “It’s no trouble being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.”
Of course, it morning out here on the Left Coast where I am, so there’s still plenty of time for someone else—the Washington Post maybe—to surpass this idiocy.
That article was no mistake. It was a purposeful play by the leftist media demons at the AP. Shame on any paper that printed such destructive lies.
Math is hard.
I’m sure this was done on purpose.
There should be a Law that any “correction” should occupy the same Newsprint Space and Location as the original false report.
“The media” did the same thing (deliberate error-by-selective-exaggeration) too more times yesterday: First by emphasizing that the total US deaths were higher than anywhere else in the world (while ignoring China completely! AND while ignoring the inconvenient fact that US death-per-million is second lowest in the world.)
Then by allowing the NYC democrats to add EVERY death outside a hospital regardless of whether a coronavirus test was performed or not! - as a “Trump-inspired Coronavirus death”.
I cannot say I’m shocked. But the media still thinks itself as smarter and better than all us plebs...
It’s even harder when you’re a Journalist.
I hate this media and they should be made to pay for their slanderous libel.
bkmk
2,000,000 or 120,000 ?
Not much difference.
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