Why does the White House continue to allow a deranged conspiracy theorist into the press briefing room? It lends the legitimacy of the White House to this nonsense.
Also where is the White House Correspondents' Association on this? Just a complete failure to live up to industry-wide rhetoric about "facts" and "truth"
WHCA: We exist to promote excellence in journalism. Now, let's hear from member in good standing Emerald Robinson about how Satan put a bioluminescent tracking device in the Covid vaccine.
Jen Psaki: Misinformation is an urgent public health crisis. Let me start by calling on Ms. Robinson, who I believe has a question about how global elites, aided by Lucifer, plan to use vaccines to track and control your personal assets.
"our institutions are strong" buddy our institutions are incapable of doing even the bare minimum to stand up for the values they claim to cherish
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Peters could have avoided this simply by giving the dude an accurate label, like "never-Trump Republican." Instead he tried to pass the guy off as a centrist liberal, which is inaccurate and misleading. People are rightly calling bullshit on that.
Peters is also the article of the NYT's 2019 Tea Party retrospective that failed to mention President Obama's race as a motivating factor for a large part of the movement. yahoo.com/now/wesley-low…
None of this is particularly complicated. I grabbed the numbers from the NYT: since August 1 (roughly the start of the Delta death wave), Florida's Covid mortality is easily the worst in the nation -- more than double the national average. thewhyaxis.substack.com/p/floridas-del…
A Lancet study estimates that if vaccinations in Florida kept pace with leading states like Vermont and Massachusetts, DeSantis could have avoided 600,000 cases, 60,000 hospitalizations and 16,000 deaths through August 31. thelancet.com/journals/lanin…
New on The Why Axis: It's Halloween, which means that Serious Reporters are writing up literal ghost stories as if they were factual. And we wonder why so many are no longer able to tell fact from fiction. thewhyaxis.substack.com/p/the-press-is…
I honestly had no sense of the scope of the problem until I started looking at all the ghost coverage this week. It's insane! "Why do people believe things that aren't true," an entire industry asks as it advises people on which healing crystals to buy
I think of stories as happening along a continuum that runs from "endeavor to find out what the truth is, no matter what people say" to "just repeat what people are saying, no matter how crazy." And right now way too much coverage is weighted heavily toward the latter.
*sees a package labeled 'Double Stuf Stoneo' showing a cookie bursting out of a giant pot leaf* "How will anyone be able to tell this contains marihuana?"
Related to their promotion of astrology, the press often lends credence to other superstitions and pseudosciences too. Here, for instance, is a lengthy and completely uncritical story on the supposed "haunting" of a building, complete with quotes from "paranormal investigators"
Here's a story from CT on how to tell a "legit" investigation from a "sensationalized" one: "Just because there appears to be an orb on the video doesn’t mean there’s something spiritual there. Other evidence of manifestation should present itself." journalinquirer.com/connecticut_an…
Major papers too. Here's Tampa Bay Times. Again, no pushback on the claims of the supernatural. tampabay.com/life-culture/2…
This "Biden needs to save the supply chain" nonsense is Green Lanternism to the extreme. The causes include everything from worldwide labor shortages to natural disasters to a global pandemic! I am begging the press to be smarter about this. reuters.com/world/us/us-su…