Call me a nut, but COVID really changed the way I perceive media/information. It was just so painfully obvious that reality did not match the narrative, from symptoms to natural immunity, to mask efficacy, to vax efficacy, etc.
This thread on the origin is fascinating/horrible.
Then a poll came out finding that lots of people believed the lab leak theory: about a third of Americans.
The press leapt to tar the believers as rubes & the people who convinced them as charlatans.
There’s a lot of this but a few from @CNN, @Forbes, @voxdotcom & @thehill.
Anyway, back to the coverage. This was the dawn of what I like to call “experts say” reporting, where an outlet finds someone with credentials who agrees with them to make the point the outlet wants to make.
Here’s @NatGeo, @Forbes, @CBSNews & @washingtonpost doing that here.
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This is what's in store for the rest of the country thanks to Biden's baffling decision to copy California's AB 5 law.
California's rapid decline under Newsom is a warning to the nation that Joe Biden refuses to heed.
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