Posted on 05/26/2021 2:16:27 PM PDT by Kaslin
What are we learning about the American political-media establishment now that the origin story of the coronavirus pandemic appears to be radically changing?
The Wall Street Journal has been reporting on new developments out of China's Wuhan Institute of Virology. There's more on those researchers who became "sick enough in November 2019 that they sought hospital care, according to a previously undisclosed U.S. intelligence report." The newspaper's reporting boosts efforts supporting a deeper investigation into the origins of the coronavirus illness.
We're also learning, and relearning, about institutional rot and the triumph of political ideology over analysis.
But will the political-media establishment of Washington use this moment to reexamine itself and reflect?
As we wait, more facts come out daily about the origins of the pandemic that led to the deaths of 3.4 million people worldwide, including some 500,000 in the U.S. It is without doubt the most important story of our time. And part of the job of citizens, of journalists and responsible political leaders, is to question assumptions.
Yet until quite recently, anyone who dared suggest that the virus may have leaked from a laboratory in Wuhan, China -- a theory that ran counter to the approved version of the Chinese Communist Party that someone ate or came in contact with an infected bat from a "wet market" -- were dismissed as dangerous, perhaps insane.
What are we learning about the American political-media establishment now that the origin story of the coronavirus pandemic appears to be radically changing?
The Wall Street Journal has been reporting on new developments out of China's Wuhan Institute of Virology. There's more on those researchers who became "sick enough in November 2019 that they sought hospital care, according to a previously undisclosed U.S. intelligence report." The newspaper's reporting boosts efforts supporting a deeper investigation into the origins of the coronavirus illness.
We're also learning, and relearning, about institutional rot and the triumph of political ideology over analysis.
But will the political-media establishment of Washington use this moment to reexamine itself and reflect?
As we wait, more facts come out daily about the origins of the pandemic that led to the deaths of 3.4 million people worldwide, including some 500,000 in the U.S. It is without doubt the most important story of our time. And part of the job of citizens, of journalists and responsible political leaders, is to question assumptions.
Yet until quite recently, anyone who dared suggest that the virus may have leaked from a laboratory in Wuhan, China -- a theory that ran counter to the approved version of the Chinese Communist Party that someone ate or came in contact with an infected bat from a "wet market" -- were dismissed as dangerous, perhaps insane.
That was the year of the anti-establishment insurgency. I knew she would not win. But I wasn't standing in Washington where it is impossible to see clearly.
The New York Times might no longer be the newspaper of record, but it is the newspaper of the establishment. Its editor, Dean Baquet, realized the paper's mistake on missing what was going on in the country following Trump's win.
"If I have a mea culpa for journalists and journalism, it's that we've got to do a much better job of being on the road, out in the country, talking to different kinds of people than the people we talk to -- especially if you happen to be a New York-based news organization -- and remind ourselves that New York is not the real world."
Such critical self-examination lasted only a few weeks. Because rather than explore it and understand the nation and the disconnect between the establishment Washington press and millions of Americans, the Democratic Party gave the media fresh meat to sink their teeth into:Such critical self-examination lasted only a few weeks. Because rather than explore it and understand the nation and the disconnect between the establishment Washington press and millions of Americans, the Democratic Party gave the media fresh meat to sink their teeth into:Hillary Clinton was unfairly defeated because Trump was a tool of the Russians! The Russia collusion fantasy was beaten like a drum for years, and though it fizzled as a criminal matter, it was politically effective.
Hillary Clinton was unfairly defeated because Trump was a tool of the Russians! The Russia collusion fantasy was beaten like a drum for years, and though it fizzled as a criminal matter, it was politically effective.
I am actually shocked that hospital records were made available somehow.
Pretty sure just about every other record is sanitized now, even though we are not going to get access anyway.
Makes sense that the communists released Wuhan virus to stop DJT’s reelection. Both Chinese and Democrats hate and fear him. They had the means, the opportunity, and the motive
Not for a moment.
**until quite recently, anyone who dared suggest that the virus may have leaked from a laboratory in Wuhan, China — a theory that ran counter to the approved version of the Chinese Communist Party that someone ate or came in contact with an infected bat from a “wet market” — were dismissed as dangerous, perhaps insane.**
The people who try to stigmatize people as racist for blaming COVID on China are the same people who claim that COVID came from Chinese wet markets.
THAT BIDEN WIN IS AN AWARD TO CHINA FOR INVADING US USING COVID 19
Effort praised by CCP scientist doing so
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3960570/posts
Here’s that compliment paid to the CCP by the Biden campaign for bringing in the virus which they admitted really helped fix it to get Biden elected http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3940857/posts
Pretty old news to making a fuss about now.
Lock up dr Frankenstein for sponsoring and profiting already.
[The Wuhan Story That Finally Has Legs, Now That Trump Is Gone]
Yeah, that figures. Sigh.
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