Posted on 10/05/2020 10:37:52 AM PDT by Kaslin
The latest news cycle over President Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis illustrates yet again how destructive the U.S. corporate media are to national unity and a clear understanding of reality.
The latest news cycle over President Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis illustrates yet again how destructive the U.S. corporate media are to national unity and a clear understanding of reality.
While we are all aware that COVID-19 can be a truly devastating and deadly disease for some, despite the volume of media coverage dedicated to it in the past seven months, the American public still lacks crucial context for understanding Trump’s diagnosis. Not only has major media coverage not brought clarity, but it has also, as usual, obscured reality. This is especially harmful to a story with such significant potential ramifications for the nation and world.
As the president himself has alluded to in his post-diagnosis social media posts, it’s common knowledge that the Wuhan virus hits the elderly especially hard. Trump is 74. Yet even among his age demographic, surviving the disease, not death, is by far the norm.
According to the Centers for Disease Control’s “current best estimate” based on the data so far, of Americans who are ages 70 and older, 94.6 percent who test positive for COVID will survive. Other countries have seen roughly similar survival rates. So the president’s odds are thankfully good.
They are improved by the fact that Trump is in relatively good health for his age and has the best medical care on the planet. In addition, medical professionals have learned a lot about how to treat COVID-19, and now have excellent success in doing so, especially when the infection is caught early. Trump’s was, since he is tested daily. Further, unlike the Americans who have been barred from effective coronavirus treatments due to anti-Trump animus, political correctness will not keep Trump from getting the best available treatments.
So while of course none of us knows the future, or can tell whether our president will against these good odds end up in the small minority of those who succumb to this disease, we have many reasons to hope and pray for the best.
Regardless of how things eventually work out for our president and nation, panic is never helpful. Panic impedes sensible responses to danger. Panic makes things worse, not better. Yet it is predictably what our nation’s media served up, along with a steaming side of wild conspiracy theories.
Trump tweeted a video update from the hospital at 6:51pm.
Ian Bremmer tweeted this 7 minutes later.
AMAZING pic.twitter.com/MUYjQo0qHm
— Kelb Hull (@CalebJHull) October 3, 2020
Biden is yet to denounce any of his supporters–including former Obama/Biden White House staff–who are openly saying they hope the president dies. https://t.co/LuYNOzdekA
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) October 2, 2020
This person is a Vanity Fair writer and former New York Magazine writer who is working on a book about New York City’s experience with COVID-19. Notice how many retweets these got.
This person is a Vanity Fair writer and former New York Magazine writer who is working on a book about New York City’s experience with COVID-19. Notice how many retweets these got.
Sherman’s article linked to in this tweet falsely reports that Trump’s physician “told reporters that Trump was diagnosed with COVID-19 on Wednesday—a day earlier than Trump previously disclosed.” Instead of asking an easy follow-up question to clarify the physician’s timeline for Trump’s diagnosis, reporters ran with false claims that the president had been diagnosed a day earlier than previously disclosed, causing them to inaccurately assert he had attended a donor event while knowingly COVID-positive.
Sherman also engages in the coy journalism trick of spreading gossip and innuendo while pretending to discount it.
Some Trump allies are entertaining conspiracy theories that the White House outbreak was caused by someone with political motives. ‘It’s weird that all these Republicans are getting it,” a prominent Republican told me. ‘I don’t know what the [expletive] is going on. But one thing I’ve learned is: when something major happens thirty days before an election, it usually has to do with the election.’ (There is no evidence for this wild claim).
I guess it’s okay to spread conspiracy theories and hysterical quotes so long as you work at Vanity Fair and not InfoWars, and include the appropriate amount of wink-wink, nudge-nudge hedging in your copy.
Juliette Kayyem didn’t even do that. She is a national security analyst for — what else — CNN. Here she is on Twitter making yet another ridiculous, completely unsubstantiated Russian collusion claim. Again, note the retweet numbers.
Liberals cannot be trusted, period. They have always lied and spun and prevaricated. But lately, the last couple of years, the lying has reached epic proportions. Lately, if you want to know the truth, it is more often than not the opposite of whatever the liberals are saying.
Love that quote about the President naming Ivanka as president instead of Pence. These people are just idiots.
And the MSM accuse Q-Anon of peddling conspiracy theories! In just this one article we see bizarre theories like Trump somehow appointing Ivanka to succeed him. And one person says the video of Trump shows him panting and struggling to breathe, which is absolutely unlike the video that I saw (the same video).
So called news and pundits.
Sad when the best news you can find is not US based, i.e. look to some in Western Europe and Russia.
The US media was referred to as “yellow journalism,” a term forgotten but as accurate today as it was in the 1890s.
There are zero ethical, professional, or legal standards in US journalism.
It’s just an endless drivel of advertising pretending to be news, pop culture trash stories, and political maneuvering. Little in substance, high in speculation, poorly fact checked, always biased. Not even the weather, the frigging weather, is just reported on. Nope, not in America. Even the weather has turned into a story about the coming ice age (1970s), which turned into global warming (1990s), which then turned into climate change (2010-present). And of course if it’s a hot day, rains a lot in the morning, or it doesn’t rain enough, is windy, or not windy enough, cloudy, or not cloudy enough... it’s all someone’s fault.
What source said Trump had heart palpitations and a temperature of 103 degrees on Friday? He had a temperature but what it was hasn’t been reported as far as I know. And the trip to the hospital was related to his oxygen saturation, not temperature.
That has to be ‘Most Gross Metaphor of the Calendar Year!’
If only we knew who owned & controlled American media.
If only.
Does anybody ever remember the media’s hair on fire when Obama got sick. Now that I think of it, I never even heard of him getting sick in 8 years! NOT ONE SINGLE TIME!
Yup-
No matter what he says, the main stream news will always look for an angle to make him look incompetent / factually wrong, bad, contradictory / hypocrite, or mean.
But the silver lining is that the so called news in this country blew their wad many years ago. People do not trust them, they have been desensitized, and they have more alternative sources from where to get their news.
The era of a Walter Cronkite declaring Vietnam as lost, and then the entire country basically assuming that defeatist and fatalistic mood is over.
His doctors lied to us? At least Biden is transparent with his health /s
Satan keeps his soldiers healthy for battle.
“If only we knew who owned & controlled American media.
If only.”
1. [redacted]
2. Faggots
3. Feminazis
They sure are.
These corporate media entities are globalists who need to be rightfully called out as such. They hide behind the same United States' protection they attack.
Fox news reported he had a little bit of fever, probably not more than 101 or at the most 102.
The US media was referred to as “yellow journalism,” a term forgotten but as accurate today as it was in the 1890s. <<
Im thinking we’ve been seeing a lot of “Blue Journalism” lately.....
Heck they’re even attacking the Doctors! .... hysterics on steroids!
Most normal people would be ashamed to show their face in public after writing garbage like that, but libtards are genetically incapable of being embarrassed. This may be a precursor to the scriptural strong delusion.
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