The News as We Once Knew it Is Dead

Townhall.com ^ | September 17, 2020 | Victor Davis Hanson

[Kaslin]

In 2017, the liberal Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University found that 93 percent of CNN's coverage of the Trump administration was negative. The center found similarly negative Trump coverage at other major news outlets.

The election year 2020 has only accelerated that asymmetrical bias -- to the point that major newspapers and network and cable news organizations are now fused with the Joe Biden campaign.

Sometimes stories are covered only in terms of political agendas. Take COVID-19.

The media assure us that the Trump administration's handling of the pandemic has been a disaster. But their conclusions are not supported by any evidence.

In the United States, the coronavirus death rate per million people is similar to, or lower than, most major European countries except Germany

When the virus was at its worst, before the partisan campaign of this election year heated up, the governors in our four largest states had only compliments for the Trump administration.

Democrats Andrew Cuomo of New York and Gavin Newsom of California and Republicans Greg Abbott of Texas and Ron DeSantis of Florida effusively praised the administration's cooperation with their own frontline efforts.

The most recent conclusions of impartial heads of federal agencies responsible for coordinating national and state policies are about the same.

Dr. Deborah Birx (adviser to both the Obama and Trump administrations on responses to infectious diseases), Dr. Anthony Fauci (director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) and Dr. Scott Gottlieb (former head of the Food and Drug Administration) have not faulted the Trump administration's overall COVID-19 response.

[PIF]

You had to be able to actually know the facts of a particular situation to know that they were not informing, but lying through their teeth; I suppose, if one was largely ignorant of a situation, then they might have been seen as informing.

But I went through the Vietnam was were the truth was had to come by unless one got a letter from a buddy or something came across on the TTY (teletype machine) that wasn’t otherwise classified.

Then the whole War on Natural Resource Harvesters Nixon began was spun by the press, but being heavily involved in the commercial fishing and logging industries, every broadcast every morning and Sunday paper were nothing but lies distortions, omissions and misdirections. The public lapped it up, calling for our deaths among other invective.

So nothing new now, just more polished and just as virulent, else every one would be voting for DJT. Or at least not voting for the radical communist democrat party in any form from dog catcher to school board.

They never made believe, its just the public looked at the talking heads and wanted to believe the heads believed what they were saying, aka the guidable public. Rationalization: the second oldest profession.