Thread by @WillMcAvoyACN

The next time someone claims the news media is biased against conservatives, remember today when it was revealed that the government hid the deaths of nearly 3,000 Americans and the national conversation was about if Google and the news media was biased against conservatives.

Following the release of a study conducted by George Washington University, the government updated the death toll in Puerto Rico to 2,975, which is over 46 times higher than the original estimate.

For some perspective:
The death toll for Hurricane Katrina was 1,833.
The death toll for Pearl Harbor was 2,467.
The death toll for 9/11 was 2,977.

Hurricane Maria is now the third deadliest natural disaster in American history, behind only the 1900 Galveston hurricane and 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

And yet @ChrisCuomo (not picking on him) spent at least 20 minutes talking about bias in the media and on search engines.

The job of the news media is to inform and enlighten, to provide facts and context. And yet so much of our current news coverage is not about what the news is, but what the news means, and then transitions to an immediate attempt to spin that news.

I understand that is, in part, a direct reaction to social media and the pace in which the news seems to happen these days and especially under this administration, which seems to have more fumbles than a posterior facing Mark Sanchez. It's absolutely a challenge.

But if we actually want to talk about bias in the media, we should talk about the bias to sensationalism instead of nuance, about the bias to conflict over understanding and compromise, we should talk about reporting politics like sports. And do so openly and honestly.

And that's me checking in from hiatus. I'm not sticking around, but I felt the need to express this today from as large a platform as possible. I don't anticipate there will be another one of these situations.

Good night, and good luck.