“We failed...”
On 13/3/20, @Telegraph ran this piece by Bobby Friedman:
“Anyone questioning the govt's COVID strategy is not only wrong, they're a danger to us all"
From the early days of the #COVID19 pandemic, the heat was being turned up on those journalists who were trying to do their jobs
“Forget the myths. Follow the money”
Following the money is key to good journalism
It means not being distracted by the army of “dead cats” scattered across the landscape, but focusing on the REAL motivations driving those who make decisions #THREAD👇
“They cover up crime with scandal & cover up malice with incompetence. They want to project an image of being inept, instead of as having a cruel & well-defined plan”@sarahkendzior
So what’s the plan?
It’s complex but these long interlinking THREADS🖕👇offer a bit of an outline
After the 2004 Iraq war, @nytimes apologised for its pre-war coverage
This week, Denmark’s largest newspaper apologised for its coverage of #COVID19
Those journalists/MPs who did “follow the money” & started getting closer the bigger scandals, found themselves quickly shut down
The #Partygate scandal might feel like journalism holding power to account
But these ever more incendiary revelations are being drip fed to us from inside govt & by Cummings
Unsurprisingly they dominate the headlines while greater scandals go unnoticed👇
“When a journalist or editor makes a decision motivated by fear of consequences, it has nothing to do with the principles of good journalism”
During the early stages of the pandemic the govt paid £35m to some newspapers to run positive COVID articles ‘disguised’ as news stories.
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