Posted on 06/09/2023 2:35:09 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
New York-based corporate media elites have flown into hysterics this week over Canadian wildfires creating a blanket of hazardous air over the Northeast United States. The ongoing wildfire health crisis is the focus of hourly updates, with articles fretting over everything from the poor air quality’s impact on “mental health” to the cancellation of Broadway shows.
Yet these same outlets, along with U.S. government officials like Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, shamefully either ignored or downplayed the arguably more serious health crisis caused by February’s fiery derailment of a freight train along the Ohio-Pennsylvania line in East Palestine. The derailment and the subsequent decision to set the spilled chemicals on fire created a hazardous mushroom cloud over the area, impacting residents’ health and livelihoods to this day.
CNN senior national correspondent Miguel Marquez dismissed residents’ frustrations with the Biden administration’s nonchalance about the disaster by characterizing the area as “hardcore Trump country.”
The New York Times’ “misinformation and disinformation” reporter Stuart Thompson tried to downplay the disaster by straw-manning concerns about the chemical spill as “wild speculation” from conservatives. “For many commentators from across the political spectrum, the speculation has gone far beyond known facts,” Thompson wrote in an article published in February. “Right-wing commentators have been particularly critical, using the crisis to sow distrust about government agencies and suggest that the damage could be irreparable.”
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One reason for the media giving so much coverage to the Smoky conditions, is that this is happening in New York City.
Since the media are centered in the New York/ Washington axis, anything happening there automatically is magnified, because the members of the media who report on it, are personally experiencing it.
And another reason, is that this gives them a platform to push global warming.
It will create a new meme..."If you remember 2023, then you weren't there".
It will help the elites to realize that some of their professed ideas are ridiculous.
Their world view is that NYC is the center of the earth. Everything else is insignificant.
My favorite part of the story is the article that said breathing the air was like smoking fourteen cigarettes.
A million Karens coughed when they read that!
Is Something More Happening In NYC?
https://wltreport.com/2023/06/08/is-something-more-happening-in-nyc/
One reason the msm has ignored the train wreck is it will affect elites’ wallets.
Liberals everywhere hate orange smoke because it reminds of Trump, Orange Man Bad. I wonder how many liberals are checking under their bed for the monster before putting on their Dylan Mulvaney tuck-friendly PJ’s and dreaming of normality.
Solar farms are operating at 50% because of the haze.
Did anyone in the country, outside the West Coast, hear about the bad air quality in the Pacific NW (WA State) last year from -- ta-da -- Canadian wildfires. We had bad air quality for a couple of weeks.
Well of course the elites will ignore smoke in the Northwest. To them, most of the country between New York, DC, and California is just “Flyover Country.”
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