Almost none of what we know about the key context for Covid origins comes from mainstream #media or mainstream science journalists. FCS, Fauci/Collins/Farrar emails, EcoHealth/Daszak, WIV research, ALL from independent reporters/investigators. Major #journalism fail.
2/ And yet almost everything currently being discussed in Congress and the media derives from that investigative reporting mainstream reporters failed to do on their own. And very little credit being given to those who did the heavy journalistic lifting.
3/ Three years into pandemic, the big stars of science journalism, @carlzimmer @sciencecohen @Laurie_Garrett @amymaxmen @DavidQuammen @laurahelmuth @JoelAchenbach et al. have contributed almost no new facts to the origins story, no actual investigation, just hash and rehash.
4/ One reason for this: Filing FOIA requests for emails of Fauci/Collins/Farrar or EcoHealth/Daszak goes contrary to the access #journalism that most mainstream science writers practice. The pandemic called for journalists to go beyond that. Those who did are the heroes.
5/ Look at the incredible amount of information in this timeline prepared by @USRightToKnow and reporter @emilyakopp usrtk.org/covid-19-origi… Did any of this info come from mainstream media reporters? NO.
6/ There are a few exceptions, eg this one by @rowanjacobsen technologyreview.com/2021/07/26/103… and this one by @natashaloder overmatter.substack.com/p/the-november… which at least put pieces of the puzzle together and asked the right questions, even if they didn't involve investigative work.
7/ Another very recent exception is the WaPo publishing the work of @gdemaneuf even though it did not involve investigation by the paper's own reporters: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…
8/ A very good roundup of the failure by both the media and science journalists by @AshleyRindsberg : tabletmag.com/sections/news/…
9/ Sorry I meant science journals.
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