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  2. They did mention Trump was racist for restricting flights to China on 31 January. Actually, he made the restriction that day, and the media probably didn’t mention it until February.

  3. No one pays attention to them any more. Proven liars and slanderers. Repeatedly.

    Just laugh at them.

  5. The thing about opinion writers (can’t really call them journalists) is there is next to no accountability, because they take no action, they just talk. If they are wrong about something, they aren’t called on it (except maybe on twitter). They can say they would have done X, then X isn’t done because they aren’t policy makers, then they can say how great their idea was if only it had been done. Plus they write everything with the great advantage of hindsight, where all things are know. I guess the shorter version of this is to say most “journalists” pretty much suck.

  6. I have no words.

    I can’t understand if these journalists are simply cold liars, or if they are so enamored with their own pretended virtue as to unconsciously modify their memories, in order to retroactively admire themselves in a morally heroic light.

    Or both.

  7. I’ve just read, on Hot Air, this quote from a February 26th Vox’s article:

    “You may think the White House, or some arm of the federal government. But per the 10th Amendment of the US Constitution, public health is not a power specifically given to the federal government, and so it rests mainly with the states, as well as large cities with strong public health departments, like New York City.”

    “It’s important to remember that public health is actually a police power that is delegated to the states,” says Rebecca Katz, director of the Center for Global Health Science and Security at Georgetown.

    Ops.

  8. You want to sum up the MSM? Ross Douthat has now been a regular Op-Ed writer at the New York Times for over a decade. In all that time and all those words, how many times has Ross Douthat come up with anything genuinely interesting or insightful?

    Mike

  9. I am most upset at the tremendous amount of media denigration of the hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin treatment. All because Trump thought it might be a big help. How many people might die because the media decides to make certain medicines politically incorrect?

  10. They lost me a while ago. When they start playing those late January and February “Come on down to Chinatown” clips from various Democrat dimwits (Pelosi, DeBlasio, Oxiris Barbot, the NYC commissioner of public health(!!)), give me a call. I might watch.

  12. They are unserious people who grossly overestimate their own ability and intelligence.

    They are, perhaps, the very core of MBunge’s “Elite Adjacent.”

  13. TommyJay on April 1, 2020 at 9:10 pm said:
    ..How many people might die because the media decides to make certain medicines politically incorrect?
    * * *
    Maybe we can start a meme, something catchy like: “Reporters lied; people died.”

  14. What will the media do with this story?

    https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/engineer-allegedly-crash-train-usns-mercy-los-angeles/story?id=69926172&id=69926172

    Around 1 p.m. Tuesday, Moreno allegedly ran the train at full speed off the end of the tracks near the Navy medical boat, smashing through several concrete and chain barriers, before sliding through a parking lot nearly 250 yards from the Mercy, according to the criminal complaint.

    No one was injured and the boat wasn’t damaged, however, the train leaked a substantial amount of fuel, the complaint said.
    …
    A California Highway Patrol officer caught Moreno as he allegedly tried to escape from the scene, according to the complaint. Moreno allegedly told officers and FBI investigators that he deliberately derailed the train because he was suspicious of the Mercy’s intentions and thought it was actually part of a government takeover, the complaint said.

    “Moreno stated that he acted alone and had not pre-planned the attempted attack,” according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Central District of California. “While admitting to intentionally derailing and crashing the train, he said he knew it would bring media attention and ‘people could see for themselves,’ referring to the Mercy.”

    In an interview with FBI agents, Moreno stated that “he did it out of the desire to ‘wake people up,’” according to the complaint.

    He’s been charged with train wrecking.
    IKYN.

  15. What will the media do with this story?

    https://libertyunyielding.com/2020/04/01/fbi-report-chinese-national-tried-to-enter-u-s-with-suspected-mers-sars-materials-in-2018/

    The Chinese scientists intercepted at the Detroit Metro Airport was not isolated case. The FBI report, which addressed security risks of foreign researchers in the United States, cited two other incidents when Chinese nationals attempted to enter the U.S. with undeclared flu samples and suspected E. coli.

  16. Try to convince the AKASMSM of this:
    https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1245410388604342273.html

    The Church of Global Warming sees the coronavirus as a great opportunity to push its agenda, but the opposite outcome is more likely: the public losing its patience with alarmism, junk science, theatrics, and silly fetishes like the plastic bag ban.

    An unprecedented economic disaster is going to leave the public in no mood to hear lectures that it should be even poorer, and embrace an even lower and less healthy standard of living, because the high priests of climate change demand it.
    For at least the next decade, there isn’t going to be a lot of spare change lying around to finance theatrical crusades or pay for politicized studies. The clamor to rebuild the economy will drown out shamanistic demands for expensive junk like solar panels and windmills.

    …
    Our society indulged in a great deal of apocalypse role-playing because it was incredibly rich and comfortable. Many people felt aimless or guilty and wanted to see themselves as brave warriors tackling a challenge on par with World War 2, without too much actual discomfort.

    Now that everyone has gotten a taste of a REAL crisis – and we haven’t yet begun to feel the true extent of its economic aftershocks – the hunger for role-playing games and fanciful indulgences will diminish. The real thing isn’t much fun, and it demands hard work and sacrifice.

    Maybe there will be less aimlessness and guilt afterward, more appreciation for what we’ve built and how fragile it is. It probably won’t be a good time to sell phantom fears whose “solutions” call for the exact opposite of what dealing with the real crisis demands. /end

  17. Synergy – it’s what happens when you read news obsessively.
    But the Media didn’t “see this coming.”

    https://www.city-journal.org/de-blasio-failed-to-equip-ny-for-coronavirus-crisis

    New York is the nation’s largest and richest city, and it’s worth asking why it found itself in such short supply of basic goods, especially after so much time and energy was spent on preparedness and resiliency. The city published multiple studies about the likelihood of an epidemic that could flood emergency rooms and participated in a rolling “Pandemic Accord Continuity Exercise Series” with FEMA from 2013 through 2015. The NYC Health + Hospitals Corporation, the largest public hospital organization in the country, has a dedicated Simulation Center that ran a “SARS Pandemic Response Simulation” at Kings County Hospital in 2019.

    Plans aren’t everything, of course. But awareness certainly existed that a Covid-19-like pandemic was possible. Why didn’t the city at least stock up on masks and hand sanitizer, which are cheap—or were cheap, before global demand created a shortage? It isn’t as though Mayor de Blasio is unconcerned about emergencies—he talks obsessively about climate change and its “existential” threat to the city. He has initiated major lawsuits against energy companies, attempted to prohibit glass buildings, banned plastic bags, and plans to extend the shoreline of Manhattan into the East River in order to protect New York City against the possibility of rising ocean levels over the next century.

    Yet at the same time, de Blasio—and New York’s governors—closed hospitals and care centers, turning their sites over to well-connected developers, without replacing capacity or building in redundancy. He signed six bulging budgets that increased spending by tens of billions of dollars, and he lavished money on anything that advanced his political agenda or benefitted his allies. But he clearly didn’t allocate enough money to buy the necessary staples of emergency preparedness. Now that disaster has arrived at the city’s door, the mayor is blaming everyone but himself.

  18. “They are unserious people…

    Actually, they are extremely serious people whose toxic ambition is to bring down POTUS and anyone who supports him.

    And they have proven that they will tell any falsehood, spread any slander and manufacture any crisis—in short, do anything—to achieve this goal.

  19. de Blasio (cont.)

    Nor should anyone forget the systematic release of criminals that he and his administration fought for and enabled—BY LAW—no doubt to enhance his fair city, improve quality of life for its citizens and demonstrate to his electorate the lengths that he would go to make it a safer, more livable, metropolis….

  20. “…all-knowing, all-seeing…”
    Compare and contrast –
    https://thefederalist.com/2020/03/23/corporate-media-attacks-trump-for-highlighting-potential-coronavirus-treatment/

    https://summit.news/2020/04/01/michigan-democrat-governor-asks-feds-for-hydroxychloroquine-just-days-after-threatening-doctors-for-prescribing-it/
    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/03/24/ny_gov_andrew_cuomo_announces_state_will_try_drug_combination_trump_has_been_talking_about.html
    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/04/01/one_america_news_hydroxychloroquine_proving_an_effective_treatment_for_coronavirus_patients.html

  23. I would be remiss if i didnt point out that the jobless claims number is way inflated!!!!
    how so?

    well.. those that were working and lost job will file… thats norm
    but those who are self employed who normally cant file, can now file

    I dont think they get the Unemployment Insurance, but they do get $600 a week for a period of time

    this GREATLY inflates the numbers…
    so the numbers dont mean the same thing as they did before as there is this new temporary category..

  24. Compare and contrast –

    https://www.jns.org/report-pa-prime-minister-accuses-idf-of-spreading-coronavirus-to-palestinians/

    Never miss a beat, do they?

    https://pjmedia.com/trending/boston-globe-editorial-board-claims-trump-has-blood-on-his-hands/
    https://www.thedailybeast.com/nbcs-chuck-todd-asks-biden-if-trump-has-blood-on-his-hands-over-coronavirus-response

    Indeed, “BLOOD ON HIS HANDS” will be the next MSM/Democratic Party meme to super-saturate the country (and globe), preparing the ground for the next Adam Schiff EXTRAVAGANZA, to be launched at whatever time he believes will be the most auspicious (he’s already analyzing the entrails of the Democratic Party):
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/schiff-9-11-style-commission-coronavirus-response

    Palestinian Rules!

  25. And Susan Rice is really on a roll—giving us this stunning encore following her carefully-researched assessment that POTUS is especially triggered by Black females:
    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/why-is-susan-rice-using-coronavirus-as-an-excuse-to-shill-for-china

    Just why former Obama administration officials feel they need to do this sort of thing is rather curious.
    Don’t they realize that the country—that the entire world—is in a crisis?
    Wouldn’t it behoove them to stand together with the current leadership, to lend a shoulder, to offer even a minimum of support in an arguably unprecedented and uncharted disaster?
    (Heh, just kidding….)

  26. The MSM; a bunch of pathetic, leftist propagandist liars.

    I would not be surprised if their constant reference to “there have been reports,” or “un-named sources,” is total BS, invented, lies.

    It is astounding that any sentient human even watches the evening “news” or reads the garbage they write in their newspapers.
    Unfortunately, many of the folks that listen / read and believe the MSM , also vote.

    That’s the scary part.

  27. “BLOOD ON HIS HANDS” will be the next MSM/Democratic Party meme

    The Democrat Party? The Progressive Church (PC) with nearly one million planned excess deaths in America alone. #WickedSolution

  28. Artfldgr on April 2, 2020 at 11:39 am

    Good catch Art. The estimated unemployment claims from a few days ago was about 3.3M and now that the actual claims have more or less been finalized, the number is 6.6M. Quite a jump. Those numbers used to be fairly hard numbers.

    But freelance workers (probably many others) are being cut in on this, and if they show check stubs or bank account statements they can get unemployment compensation too. I’m sure there won’t be any fraud even though the verification process can’t really verify much.

  29. This is infuriating:

    Governor Cuomo said New York would start enrolling patients in clinical trials to test hydroxychloroquine last week, but the trials are described as “not yet recruiting” on the ClinicalTrials.gov site? Why are these trials delayed? (Note: Brian [Sullivan] adds: “There is typically a long lag time from the time you post a trial on ClinicalTrials.gov to the time it is activated and ready to enroll patients…my concern is about whether NY and the feds can get out of the way so the regulatory and logistical burdens that hamper rapid activation and then enrollment are eliminated.”)

    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/04/the-wuhan-virus-six-notes-queries.php

  30. The footdragging on chloroquine is beyond infuriating. I was encouraged, though, to see the Michigan governor reverse course on her prohibition once the FDA finally bestirred itself.

    The sole ER in my little county (we have no hospital) just shut its doors, ostensibly because of concern that doctors had too little PPE gear. In fact, the medical staff desperately wanted to stay open and had made great strides finding PPE donations. The ER has been operating in the red for the last year or so and has been taken over by its lender. The red ink results from the fact that the ER is freestanding and therefore ineligible for Medicare, in addition to which Blue Cross hates freestanding ERs and wouldn’t give them a PPO agreement on terms that would cover costs. The lender simply announced, without no warning, that it would shut its doors this morning and “furlough” staff for 45 days, helpfully adding that now they could pursue unemployment and other emergency benefits.

  32. Barry Meslin. Am I glad I canceled the Globe yesterday. The operator asked me why. “Because there are no sports[especially football] and the rest of the paper is garbage.”

  33. Paul in Boston
    Am I glad I canceled the Globe yesterday. The operator asked me why. “Because there are no sports[especially football] and the rest of the paper is garbage.”

    I read the Globe’s sports page years/decades after I stopped reading the rest of the paper. The Globe has had some really good sportswriters for decades. While I long abandoned the uber-liberal politics I grew up with in New England, I maintained a loyalty to its sports teams.

  34. Alas, the “Globe” is owned by the NYT Corp. And I suppose there’s always that NY-Boston competitive climate…. Must be real hard to keep up with the Times, but the Globe is giving it its best shot.

    (And yes, a terrific sports writer is a real gift to the readership….)

  35. @ Paolo,
    Ms Katz is correct about the police powers in our constitutional system. Federalism however, [Dual or otherwise], is usually only noticed by progressives when they wish to criticize “localism” or provincialism as impeding their totalitarian agendas, or contrarily, to deploy it in order to further some progressive social agenda in an otherwise disapproving social climate. Federalism is therefore good on this view, if the concept can be used to wedge , say, homosexual “marriage” into the national polity somewhere; and bad, obviously, if some sovereign state redneck Christians somewhere else refuse to legislate it in their state.

    Same with regard to free speech, conscription laws, criminal codes, or any matters touching governance and fundamental rights whatsoever. If it aids their personal agendas or gives them, so they imagine, boasting rights, then local self-government is good. If however their vainglory collapses in a heap of rubble on their malicious heads, or someone somewhere refuses to sacrifice themselves for their benefit, then it is bad.

    Just another instance of the “You exist for me” mentality of the progressive kind.

  36. Re the comments concerning Gretchen Whitmer and Andrew Cuomo, I’ll resist the impulse to make reflexive comments on the order of, ” They can expire in the beds they’ve made”, or ” let them burn”.

    This, because the wheat and the goddamned tares are so mixed together, (as the tares well-know and leverage to their advantage). But, having had to live with the fallout genersted by these kinds of self-serving bureauctatic niche seeking hypocrites most of my life, I am very near to saying it.

    And I see by the language used in the Ace of Spades linked article, that others share the same intensity of feeling and revulsion, if not the precise sentiment.

    Would then, I let Cuomo or his preening, virtue signalling, virus impact dismissing, flunkies and allies of 6 weeks ago, die shivering in a ditch, if fate thrust such a choice upon me?

    Well, I do believe I would need some time to think about that before answering …..

  37. Barry Meislin on April 2, 2020 at 12:57 pm said:
    …
    Just why former Obama administration officials feel they need to do this sort of thing is rather curious.
    Don’t they realize that the country—that the entire world—is in a crisis?
    Wouldn’t it behoove them to stand together with the current leadership, to lend a shoulder, to offer even a minimum of support in an arguably unprecedented and uncharted disaster?
    * * *
    I began turning hard right, after a brief flirtation with the left in college, when I realized that all the problems the Democrat leadership complained about would have been done with & generally well resolved if they had spent as much time working with the Republican administrations as they did complaining.
    It’s almost as if they wanted the disasters to get worse…..

  38. “the wheat and the goddamned tares are so mixed together, (as the tares well-know and leverage to their advantage)” – DNW

    That’s a great short description of the eternal problem of good and evil in the world.
    My own vision of Hell is, that it is just like Earth, but all the decent, righteous people (of all deity-based faiths or none) have gone on to Heaven, and there is no one left to clean up the mess made by the selfish, short-sighted, vindictive (add vices to list to taste) people who counted on them to keep things going.

    The Left in the US is forever spending down the material, social, and moral capital of the nation built up by the Right, and then wanting a loan.

  39. By pushing so hard to make this pandemic scarier (despite it has not equaled a bad flu year) they have managed to put themselves out of work faster than they were out of work before. The gig economy in CA is having serious problems (that is also effecting nurses) due to a law that says they cant be gig… and a lady politician who refuses to back down as everyone wants waivers (given they cant remove the law)…

    Hundreds of journalists are being laid off, right when the public needs them the most
    https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/27/media/media-layoffs/index.html

    BuzzFeed has instituted paycuts and scaled back on travel and hiring. According to the memo, which was obtained by CNN Business, Peretti will not take a salary for the rest of the year.

    [skip]

    CNN Business reported on Sunday that at least 100 people in local newsrooms in the US lost their jobs in March. By Friday, that number shot up to at least 300 people as the impact of coronavirus continues to roil newspapers and digital media companies.

    [skip]

    “There is concern across the board, both in the unit and outside of it, that management does not understand the consequences of some of the layoffs they’ve proposed,” Letzter said. “In many instances, they’re maintaining the accuracy and quality of coronavirus coverage. Everyone is working very hard, frankly, harder than the company has earned from them at this point.”

    The sad twist about these layoffs and restructuring is that they come just as the public is hungry for information about the pandemic, but there are now fewer journalists to provide vital information about it. Traffic is up for many sites and TV ratings have increased as people are stuck at home watching the news.

    -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

    Their effort to harm trump and all over the world push and destroy economy (cause every leftist knows that capitalism is going to fail), has them falling from the branch they were themselves sitting on. if economy drops, ad revenue drops, and writers in the news go bye bye…

    given their coverage has been so negative, bombastic, full of lies by omission, lies by incomplete coverage, editorials pretending to be news, and more…

    we really dont need them as much as they think they are important!!!!!

    IF they actually covered things well, and without one sided bias and without fomenting panic and more, they would be useful… but as a propaganda arm of the leftist world press, we dont need them, and very few people are going to mourn the passing of schlock press… [even less as they realize that they may be out of work because of how the press covered things and endeavored to make things worse]

  40. AesopFan — I guess we’ll have to change the old joke about Heaven and Hell to something like “Heaven is where truck drivers and small business owners are in charge, and Hell is where journalists and Deans of Diversity and Inclusion are in charge.”

  41. “Hundreds of journalists are being laid off, right when the public needs them the most”–Artfldgr on April 3, 2020 at 8:47 am

    Every cloud has a silver lining. 😉

  42. Richard – good one – I haven’t yet seen any reason to change any of the stereotypes in the original.

    I just looked it up to check (may downgrade the Swiss on organization a tad, but will wait till all the numbers are in), and learned several new words.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faxlore

    Faxlore is a sort of folklore: humorous texts, folk poetry, folk art, and urban legends that are circulated, not by word of mouth, but by fax machine. Xeroxlore or photocopylore is similar material circulated by photocopying; compare samizdat in Soviet-bloc countries.
    …
    With the rise of the Internet, media such as World Wide Web, email, instant messaging, and social networking sites are now available to quickly and widely spread the sort of material that formerly circulated as faxlore. The hoax warnings of things such as dire and terrible computer viruses that still occasionally circulate, carry on one tradition of the bogus cautionary tale that used to circulate as faxlore, now known as copypasta (an altered compound of common computer functions copy and paste).

    I’m not sure how to stereotype China for a similar proverb: at the moment, I am inclined to consign the whole place to Hell, but I’m sure there are good people there who are not complicit (or, at least, not willingly) in the debacle.

    I don’t think that there is a Heavenly category for the Democrat leadership of this era either.

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