Leading the pack is @NPR. Not only have they refused to cover the Joe & Hunter Biden email scandal, they put out an editors note saying they “don’t want to waste...time on stories that are just pure distraction.”
Compare that to the clickbait headline for Steele. Amazing.
Another Russian-related lie was exposed today, this time the allegation that @nypost’s Biden coverage was “Russian disinformation,” something that every corner of the media & Democratic Party assured us was the case.
Don’t believe me? Well, take a look👇
Getting us started is @CNN, who had chief Russian conspiracist James Clapper on the program to talk about how the Post story was “classic textbook Soviet Russian tradecraft” (his words) and then did an “anatomy” of the “dubious” story.
But right behind them was @nytimes, who ran a similarly incredulous story, and whose chief political reporter @maggieNYT doubled down on the Russian disinformation angle.
1) I don’t get why these personal moments are newsworthy 2) they’re heartbreaking, and the type of heartbreak that anyone who has had a loved one battle addiction knows 3) this does more to humanize Joe Biden than any campaign ad. nypost.com/2020/10/16/tex…
More succinctly: dunking on a man for comforting his addict son is fucked, and if your politics leads you to do it, that’s fucked, too.
We are in the midst of the greatest addiction and overdose crisis this country has ever seen.
And we’re dedicating time and attention to dunk on a man struggling with addiction and a father who cares for him?
It’s become fashionable to criticize the US response to coronavirus. Perhaps that’s warranted. But cases are spiking across Europe and it’s gone unremarked across much of the media.
I ran the numbers. It’s grim, particularly compared to new US cases.
France
New cases: 29,641
Population: 67 million
Cases adjusted for US pop: 145,108
Actual US cases: 55,291
There’s still apples to oranges a bit, here, but for context, that would be about double the highest single-day case total in the US so far.
United Kingdom
It isn’t just France, either. This is all over Europe.
New cases: 17,502
Population: 67 million
Cases adjusted for US pop: 85,681
Actual US cases: 55,291