When the Israeli military makes a public statement and then the spokesman confirms it, reporting is not a “rush to print.” nytimes.com/2021/05/14/wor…
When domestic media are given a different story from international media, it’s not an innocent mistake.
When we know that the Israeli military launched a complex deception in 2019, protestations are weak.
Then there’s this:
Israel’s Channel 10 reported Friday “that a General Staff Deception Unit had recently been created, and that it had been activated to cause Hamas to think that a ground invasion was underway.”
I’m still waiting for heads of state to condemn Israel for bombing the office building of two news organizations that did NOT take this bait.
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It’s not that the @CDCgov announcement about the power of vaccinations was bad (except for colloquial use of “safe” which means ‘absence of risk’) … it’s their ignoring crisis comm AND their partner states/businesses:
Compare and contrast: Administration erroneously blocking finances of a small Italian restaurant on its last day in office.
Administration facilitating states vaccinating 2.4 million people in 24 hours; 4.6 M in 48 hours.
59.8M Americans now fully vaccinated against Covid19.
CDC also reports “administered” data (moving doses from the state to vaccination centers so they can be scheduled):
8.1M doses since TH.
This makes April accelerated vaccinations possible
The Trump operation refunded $122 million — more than 10% — of what it raised online in 2020.
The illustration is accurate but exaggerates scale (because it stops far below 100%). The narrative justifies the exaggeration
THE SCALE BOGGLES. Trump, RNC and shared accounts “refunded far more money to online donors in the last election cycle than every federal Democratic candidate and committee in the country combined.”
Matt Gaetz is being investigated for
*paying for sex
*statutory rape & sex trafficking
*showing coworkers nude photos of women he said he'd slept with
*dealing in fake IDs
*lying about extortion & the FBI
*campaign finance infractions
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I am SO damn tired of columnists reaching for the LAZY "Fauci was wrong about masks" back on March 3, 2020.
It's intellectually dishonest - and disinformation by omission - for two reasons.
FIRST, Fauci was referencing known research.
Two samples:
2019 - Effectiveness of commercial face masks to reduce personal PM exposure (not very)
2017 - The efficacy of medical masks and respirators against respiratory infection in healthcare workers (five studies)
Second, in the early days of the pandemic, the US was short on ALL masks, not just N-95.
Early public statements were also trying to prevent a run on masks, so that hospital staff and 1st responders would have access to protective equipment.