By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--March 21, 2020
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COVID-19 is not the only killer virus out there claiming human lives.
Mainstream and social media in trying to suppress the truth with their lies are, in essence, doing the same thing.
The first casualty of the present day media is always the Truth.“Calls are increasing for cable networks to stop airing President Donald Trump’s press conferences live as critics believe Trump is turning White House news briefings into virtual campaign rallies that can “get people killed” with lies about the Coronavirus crisis.What calls?! Who’s calling? The media’s calling.
“The Atlantic’s James Fallows believes the attention-starved Trump is turning the press conferences into “virtual campaign” rallies and Trump would actually lose interest in showing up if the media did not cover the briefings live.” (Breitbart)
“Also, as a practical matter, if the briefings were no longer covered live, Trump would lose interest in attending himself,” Fallows argues. “Then the scientists could come back on stage—and eventually they could be covered live again.” (Breitbart)How many lives will be lost while this latest political ploy plays out doesn’t seem to matter to media pooh-bahs like the ones over at the Atlantic.
“Fallows noticed that Trump only “dropped his previous pooh-poohing of the virus threat” and “struck a somber” tone for just a day before reverting “back to the more accustomed tone of tweets and his rallies. In those settings he has had two constant themes: that he is so great, and that his critics are such cheating losers, each point usually based on information that was false”:(Breitbart)“The tone, and the false data, returned yesterday. Much of what Trump said was false: Most dramatically, his claim that the FDA had just approved use of an anti-malaria drug for treatment of COVID-19, and that it would be a “game-changer.” (FDA officials immediately clarified that they had done no such thing.) “Trump’s new fondness for these “briefings,” and their increasing conversion into Trump campaign rallies with scientists rather than local-government officials as the supporting cast, should cause cable-news producers to reflect on the path they are headed down.” “From Trump’s point of view, it makes sense to turn these events into the unfiltered airtime he used to count on at mass rallies. From the media’s point of view, it made sense to cover the first few of them live. But given the rising falsehood quotient in what Trump says, and his determination to cut off or divert questioners who try to ask about these falsehoods, cable networks should stop airing these as live spectacles and instead report, afterwards, with clips of things Trump and others said, and whether they were true.”
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MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Friday evening ripped Trump for being “wildly irresponsible” and “consistently lying” by telling “fairy tales” during the live briefings. (Breitbart) “If it were up to me, and it’s not, I would stop putting those briefings on live TV. Not out of spite but because it’s misinformation,” Maddow said. “If Trump is going to keep lying like he has been every day on stuff this important, we should, all of us, stop broadcasting it. Honestly, it’s going to cost lives.”We expect the far left media, including its number one talking head Maddow to rip Trump for being “wildly irresponsible” and “consistently lying” by telling “fairy tales” during the live briefings. But propaganda now emanates from the most unlikeliest of places: Fox News:
“The Trump Organization laid off staff at hotels in New York and Washington, closed golf courses in Los Angeles and the Miami area and stopped taking reservations at a property on the Las Vegas Strip, the New York Times reported. "Various facilities are temporarily closed given local, state and federal mandates," a Trump Organization told Fox News in an emailed statement. "We anxiously await the day when this pandemic is over and our world-class facilities can reopen." “Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla., closed weeks after the press secretary for Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro tested positive for the coronavirus after visiting the property. Bolsonaro and other Brazilian officials had dinner with Trump on March 7.”
“The White House said last week that Trump tested negative for the coronavirus test.” (Fox)Notice how it’s not that Trump tested negative for the test but that the White House “said” he did. Meanwhile, for all of the average people confined to their homes during the current pandemic, don’t expect the truth from the highly-politicized media. Expect only their lies—and ignore both the media and their lies as much as possible during this perilous ‘Time of the Coronavirus’.
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