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Journalism is dead and it hurts the nation

Derek Hunter:

“…That journalism is dead has been a punchline for so long that we’ve forgotten how that fact has real world consequences. We’re now paying the price for the failure of that profession to hold itself to any semblance of standards. As worry and straight-up panic sweep large swaths of the country, causing irrational toilet paper hoarding and runs on canned goods, there is no outlet and no journalist worthy of trust when it comes to conveying truthful information to the public or to hold anyone in power accountable.

Eight years of sycophantic, throne sniffing coverage under President Barack Obama gave way to four years of nitpicking, hostility, and conspiracy theories. There are no standards anymore; if someone on TV hates President Trump, there is no outrageous, medically dubious statement they can make on CNN or MSNBC that will be challenged and if they love him, there is nothing that will be challenged on Fox. The opposite is true on those networks if you replace “President Trump” with any Democrat…”

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Dr. Drew Pinsky on media hysteria relating to the Coronavirus

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Speaking of Vermin: The Press

Clarice Feldman has an excellent piece on Democrat/media/big government malfeasance relating to the Coronavirus. Here is a small snippet. Worth clicking over for the whole thing.

Clarice Feldman:

“…In the face of the administration’s brilliant handling of the crisis, the media, like the Democratic Congress (which tried to insert things in the emergency appropriation like a sidestep of the Hyde Amendment prohibition on federal abortion funding) the press continues its war on the President and good sense. There are many possible examples, but here are two.

Ace of Spades HQ documents how Jim Roberts celebrated the fall in the Dow and then deleted his tweets when it rose again like Lazarus after the presser. “As the Dow zoomed higher and higher, his grave-dancing tweet appeared premature, So he just deleted it. He didn’t explain why. He just zapped it and hoped no one noticed. Well, I did. After deleting his tweet, he shifted tactics: He now acknowledge[s] the markets were rising but claimed this was because Trump was passing out various undeserved goodies to corporations.”

Peter Wehner, like many anti-Trump former Republican presidential courtiers, penned for the Atlantic the latest “Trump is over” screed, claiming the coronavirus would end his re-election chances.

It obviously didn’t hold up well, lasting for but a few hours, but let me rub his nose into some of his odorous offering .He claims the virus was spreading while the administration was doing nothing, and in so doing he establishes only that he was so far out of the administration loop he had no damn idea how much was being done by so many in the administration and how efficiently and rationally it was handled.

Maybe the crystal balls the #NeverTrumpers has-beens are relying on was made in China…”

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