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Mar 17 11 tweets 9 min read
This will be the last long thread about #Uncovered for awhile… but I wanted to give you an idea what you’ll find in the book, by showing exactly what you see in the pages…

Find the hardcover, audiobook (featuring dozens of interviewees!), or ebook here: ReadUncovered.com
Tucker Carlson tells me in the prologue how he knew the Hunter Biden laptop was real and not “Russian disinformation” - he was sent emails on it between him and Hunter. He and Hunter were friendly, he tells me, until Hunter “started doing a ton of blow.” Readuncovered.com
I start #Uncovered by tracing the way the press was treated by the Obama administration - horribly - and how the Acela Media still was subservient to them.

“We created an echo chamber,” bragged top Obama aide Ben Rhodes. It seeded the ground for Trump.
Readuncovered.com
How do we fix the problems in the press, like Geographic Bias, which I write about in chapter 2 of #Uncovered?

I talk to dozens of media members on the record, from across the spectrum. @AliVelshi tells me one key element is “modeling the discourse.”
Readuncovered.com
On the need for more “cultural diversity” in newsrooms, longtime NYTer @amychozick told me about needing to hire journalists who have shot a gun, or go to church every week. Why doesn’t it happen? “It’s easy to hire people who went to Dalton and Harvard.”
Readuncovered.com
How did the corporate press get COVID so wrong - from natural immunity, to lockdowns and more? @MartyMakary tells me it was due to the “very cozy relationship” between the “medical establishment” and the media. It was reporting based on “dogma” not “data”:
Readuncovered.com
Someone who knows Dr. Fauci’s power more than anyone is @DrJBhattacharya - who described to me Fauci as a “genius” for how he controlled the “media environment” during COVID… to stop the lockdown conversation from happening, in collusion with the press.
Readuncovered.com
Throughout #Uncovered I lay out 12 “concepts” that explain exactly how the corporate press lost its way.

Here, a visual representation of Pascal’s Wager of Woke Journalism - showing how acceptable vs unacceptable is a new media axis to, sadly, factor in.
Readuncovered.com
You ever notice how stories bubbling up in the right-leaning media often get completely ignored by the broader corporate press?

I talked about this concept with @semaforben in #Uncovered - and how the “toxically contaminated” phenomenon often plays out.
Readuncovered.com
WashPost’s @ErikWemple tells me it’s “depressing” how people like Rachel Maddow, CNN and others in the press covered the Steele dossier and Russiagate: “When editors say, ‘when we get it wrong we correct it,’ that’s bullshit. I don’t believe that anymore.”
Readuncovered.com
One story I dig into is the major moment when @joerogan interviewed Dr. Sanjay Gupta. It was the consensus encountering the counter-consensus - and being exposed. Rogan is an information maximalist, in a media environment full of information minimalists.
Readuncovered.com

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Feb 12
“Some pilots said the object ‘interfered with their sensors’ on the plane…Some pilots also claimed to have seen no identifiable propulsion on the object, and could not explain how it was staying in the air...”

This is weird! So… I have a theory… 1/

cnn.com/2023/02/11/pol…
We have to start with how bizarre the Chinese spy balloon story was. Why wasn't this dealt with immediately?!

Well we heard this happens all the time, actually. That the balloon was simply "off course."

That seemed hard to believe. But... what if it was true? 2/
Adam Kinzinger is a lot of things, but he knows basic foreign policy. Where is why his tweet during the spy balloon saga was odd.

He said the balloon was flying at 100,000 feet, when it actually was only at 60,000 feet. There's a reason for that. 3/

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Feb 10
Here comes the truth about John Fetterman, in today's New York Times - months too late:

"When it’s bad, Mr. Fetterman has described it as trying to make out the muffled voice of the teacher in the 'Peanuts' cartoon, whose words could never be deciphered."
nytimes.com/2023/02/10/us/…
More John Fetterman revelations from the NYT, as we watch the Information Hostage Taking in action:

"He has had to come to terms with the fact that he may have set himself back permanently by not taking the recommended amount of rest during the campaign."
nytimes.com/2023/02/10/us/…
NYT is ready to tell the truth about John Fetterman - who remains in the hospital for a 3rd day - now that the truth doesn't matter.

"a physical impairment and serious mental health challenges that have rendered the transition extraordinarily challenging"
nytimes.com/2023/02/10/us/…
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Jan 12
Chris Wallace was a serious hard news journalist and host for decades. Now he's singing duets with Dionne Warwick. What happened?

I spend 1,500 words digging into the current Wallace-CNN relationship for my first @FourthWatch #RabbitHole deep dive (paid):
fourthwatch.substack.com/p/whos-watchin…
@FourthWatch Chris Wallace was CNN's big bet for the now-defunct CNN+. Is the investment paying off?

Last weekend he was talking to actor Hugh Jackman about the height of a comic book character. It was a far journey from his 18 years hosting Fox News Sunday:
fourthwatch.substack.com/p/whos-watchin…
@FourthWatch Sunday's "Who's Talking to Chris Wallace" had just 58K in the demo and 462K total viewers (well behind Fox but ahead of MSNBC).

The show airs just once at 7pmET (or 4pmPT), and isn't repeated throughout the evening.

@FourthWatch #RabbitHole ($):
fourthwatch.substack.com/p/whos-watchin…
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Jan 10
This viral tweet from the former CDC director is true, but wildly out of context. Is he doing so on purpose or accidentally?

Look how a bias of omission by presenting the CDC's data with as much of a broad brush as possible distorts the reality of the science... 1/
Frieden uses data that groups people between the ages of 5 and... 80+. Take a look at the age breakdown on the CDC's site.

Unvaccinated 80+ is the top line. The 2nd line is unvaccinated 65-79-year-olds. The 3rd line? VACCINATED 80+year-olds...
2/

covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tra…
Based on the CDC's own data, vaccinated 80-year-olds are more likely to die with COVID than all unvaccinated Americans below 65. It's such a big discrepancy that basically every American, vaccinated or not, looks like they're in the same category. 3/

covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tra…
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Jan 9
Damar Hamlin's injury likely had nothing to do with COVID vaccines.

But part of the reason the story grew is the corporate press' refusal to engage with vaccine reality - treating all discussion as toxic.

My @FourthWatch newsletter - now on Substack:
fourthwatch.substack.com/p/allornothing…
@FourthWatch Too often our media treats issues it deems "toxic" as "all or nothing" - pretending there are no vaccine side effects, while another side assigns vaccine side effects to everything it reads.

But life isn't that way - we need a media engaged in nuance. fourthwatch.substack.com/p/allornothing…
@FourthWatch People shared New Yorker's "The Case For Wearing Masks Forever” headline as if it was a case of COVID extremism by the press.

Instead, it was a deeply-reported, and alarming, article by @emmaogreen exposing a dangerous, but powerful, group. @FourthWatch:
fourthwatch.substack.com/i/94560142/tru…
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Grant Wahl's death wasn't related to the COVID vaccine.

But that doesn't mean vaccine injuries don't exist. And a press that treats the topic as too toxic to discuss breeds further conspiracy theories. My @FourthWatch newsletter (the first on Substack!):
fourthwatch.substack.com/p/allornothing…
@FourthWatch The press is still covering for SBF (and now his ex too).

A media that showed such a keen disinterest in the duo before, enabling their rise and crimes, is now trying to work overtime to justify their inaction. @FourthWatch: fourthwatch.substack.com/p/allornothing…
@FourthWatch David French is a conservative.

But his arguments about "misinformation" seed the ground for the kind of censorious activities our modern anti-speech activists in the press have been cheerleading. He'll fit right in at the NYT. @FourthWatch:
fourthwatch.substack.com/i/94560142/dav…
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