Thread by @DrewHolden360

@brianstelter, if you’d like to know a thing or two about news media fearmongering, may I introduce you to @CNN, just in the last twenty four hours?

To start, we have more “dire warnings” about...polar bears.

But that isn’t all of our 24-hours-of-fear 🧵thread🧵

You may have heard that we’re in the midst of a global pandemic.

Despite death rates decreasing compared to when it ransacked the northeast, @CNN has conveniently focused on the stories of those who died since reopening.

Surely the choice to do that isn’t connected to the desire to **shut down the entire country** right?

Because @CNN sure seems to have thoughts on that one.

And don’t forget about how scary things are for our latest protected class, teachers. @CNN has a lot on them, as if they’re the only group who are back at their jobs.

I mean really @brianstelter. A lot.

@CNN ripped a page out of The Atlantic’s book to talk about experiments with children and life and death.

@CNN bringing @NYGovCuomo on to talk about “government incompetence” would be funny if it weren’t for the thousands of nursing home patients he killed.

“Strongest storm on the planet” seems a bit unnecessary for a storm whose strength is supposed to diminish and whose risk is likely to be minimal, no, @CNN?

And don’t fear, Brian. There’s more fearmongering yet. This one talks about “a pandemic of hate” against Asians while traveling despite 1) the fact that we haven’t supposed to be traveling and 2) there’s no statistical support for this claim. @CNN

A guy who wrote a zombie book with a “sobering message to scientists” because I guess it gets hard to fill time slots in a 24 hour media cycle.

And last but not least, Orange Man Bad is invading American cities, to hear @CNN tell it.

I mean seriously @brianstelter. Very concerning, despite the fact that the evidence doesn’t support the idea that this is a “militarized response”

But it’s not all bad news! We’ve got a fact check that PAW patrol! And it’s still on the air!

Eyes on the ball as ever, @CNN

Anyway, this is a dumb example of the pot calling the kettle black, which sure seems like @CNN and @brianstelter’s bread and butter these days.