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Its been a decade since we have watched any news on television.

Atop editor at the New York Times instructed Times staffers not to investigate the origins of COVID-19, two Times employees confirmed today.

‘In early 2020,’ a veteran Times employee tells me, ‘I suggested to a senior editor at the paper that we investigate the origins of COVID-19. I was told it was dangerous to run a piece about the origins of the coronavirus. There was resistance to running anything that could suggest that [COVID-19 was manmade or had leaked accidentally from a lab].’

The global pandemic was then in its early stages. Donald Trump was running for reelection and calling SARS-CoV-2 the ‘Chinese virus’. His secretary of state Mike Pompeo had told ABC’s This Week in May 2020 that he had seen ‘significant’ and ‘enormous evidence’ of the virus originating in the Wuhan Institute of Virology. A few weeks later, Sir Richard Dearlove, the ex-head of Britain’s MI6 spy service agreed: ‘I subscribe to the theory…that it’s an engineered escapee from the Wuhan Institute [of Virology].’

Yet the Times, according to two well-placed sources, refused to investigate the biggest story of our time.

Report: Something Bad Must Be Happening With Democrats As CNN Homepage Is Filled With Trump Articles

U.S.—According to media experts, there must be something really bad happening on the Left, as CNN's homepage is completely filled with articles about Trump and how awful he is.

"I can only imagine what kind of depraved scandals must be plaguing the Democrat party today, for them to be talking about Trump this much," said political analyst Forrest McSquat. "Did Biden sniff a child again? Did Fauci admit COVID was on purpose? Did Kamala Harris punt an immigrant on live TV? I shudder to think about all the horrific possibilities."

While the Democrat party works internally with the media to address several scandals, CNN will be reminding the world just how bad Donald Trump was for American democracy. According to an anonymous whistleblower, CNN has created a stockpile of 873,000 negative stories about Trump, which should tide them over for the next several decades of Democrat scandals.

"As the American people begin to reminisce about the time they could afford gas and have jobs and go to restaurants, we need to keep reminding them that the Trump years were actually terrible," said CNN President Jeff Zucker.

Robert W Malone, MD retweeted

wolfpack
@AgramSeth
1h
Replying to @RWMaloneMD
“Ultimately, this leads to a journalism that no longer independently researches & critically reports on geopolitical topics, but seeks to consolidate the desired narrative through appropriate editorials, commentary, and interviews.”

We’re wise to it. Your voice is key.
Thank you

They are concentrating maximum propaganda firepower on DeSantis.

Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald
2h
The world's dumbest fucking people (Media Matters liberals) are expressing bewilderment at my statement that CIA influences corporate media outlets like CNN (even though CNN employs former top CIA officials). If you don't understand this basic fact about the US, you know nothing.

Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald
Aug 19
That's how propaganda works. If the media told you how key US allies like Saudis and Egyptians treat journalists and dissidents, you'd be furious the US supports them.

But since they hide those abuses, you're not angry about it, and instead are orientated to hate Russia & Cuba

Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald
2h
The world's dumbest fucking people (Media Matters liberals) are expressing bewilderment at my statement that CIA influences corporate media outlets like CNN (even though CNN employs former top CIA officials). If you don't understand this basic fact about the US, you know nothing.

@richwicks should enjoy this. Greenwald is openly talking about the CIA running CNN and being merged with the DNC.

Andrea Junker
@Strandjunker
15h
JOURNALISM 101 RULE: If someone says it’s raining, and another person says it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out of the fucking window and find out which is true. — Now more than ever.

Substack changed the business of journalism
Substack took off because people are increasingly distrustful of mainstream media outlets

August 21, 2021 | 2:49 pm

Gee, I'm so glad Obama legalized the use of propaganda against the American people, whereas it used to be against the law.

Advocacy reporting is the new touchstone of the journalistically woke . . . unless, that advocacy is for conservative causes or groups. I do not agree with Shroyer any more than I agree with Reid. However, they are both engaged in what is now celebrated as advocacy journalism. It is bad enough to witness the demise of traditional journalism but the Shroyer case may foreshadow an even worse future where only certain forms of advocacy will be allowed. As with NPR, what is being advocated will determine who is still a journalist. That will bring the movement of advocacy journalism to its inevitable end, leaving only advocacy in the wake of journalism.

Twenty Years of Media Consolidation Has Not Been Good For Our Democracy
The media has become controlled by a handful of corporations thanks to the Telecommunications Act of 1996.

BY MICHAEL CORCORAN | MARCH 30, 2016

This is going to be shorter than usual, as I have a very tight deadline since I hear the Taliban breaking into my building, but I just have to say what an excellent job President Biden has done during the evacuation of Afghanistan. The withdrawal has really emphasized that he was the right man for the job.

Sure, maybe a few Americans got left behind and some places — like the building I’m in — got quickly overrun by the Taliban. But think of all the people he did get out. And look at all the buildings that don’t have the Taliban going through them door-to-door with guns in hand. Well, I can’t see any from my window right now — and I think I need to get away from the window and hide under a desk — but many things have gone smoothly thanks to Biden’s steady leadership.

Now, it might be hard to see the larger picture over the shouting and gunfire just below me, but this operation has gone about as well as it possibly could have. And what has gone wrong, such as the Taliban now entering my floor, just emphasizes why we needed to leave.

Okay, they’re knocking on my door now, so I need to type really quietly, but think of this: Can you imagine what a nightmare this would be if Trump were still in charge? He’d just be yelling and shouting threats instead of the calm, almost completely hands-off approach we got from Biden. Biden knows not to overreact and—

They’ve broken down the door. I’ll have to end this here. And all I have left to say is that I can’t even imagine how this could have gone any better.

Someone please feed my cat.

A major newspaper implied that 901 Florida residents died of COVID in a single day. It was actually as low as eight. This is why people hate the media.

Put your tray tables up and strap yourself in, because it's time for a lesson in abject media malfeasance.

The Miami Herald on Thursday ran with this shocking and arresting headline:

Florida COVID update: 901 added deaths, largest single-day increase in pandemic history

It's obvious what the paper is trying to communicate: That the state on Wednesday recorded a staggering 901 deaths, a brutal toll and a razor-sharp indictment of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis's handling of the pandemic there. In particular the number is plainly supposed to indicate that the pandemic is spiraling out of control as deaths skyrocket to unimaginable numbers.

Unsurprisingly, the 901 figure was spread far and wide on social media. Here's a viral post from a Florida Democratic activist: ...

Here's the thing, though: The 901 figure is bogus, at least as far as it's meant to symbolize an entire day's worth of deaths. It's not. Not even close.

Rather, the numbers represent the cumulative deaths gathered from a dataset stretching as far back as March of 2020.

Florida didn't report 901 deaths on a single day; it reported 901 deaths from a set of over three dozen days.
It's not surprising that it's done this way: Public health authorities are always working on a lag when it comes to reported deaths. If ten people die from COVID-19 on a Monday, the health department might only report one of those deaths on a Tuesday, then two on Wednesday, then the remaining seven on Thursday as death certificates come in and are confirmed. This is done on a rolling basis and then updated in bulk at certain intervals – a policy DeSantis' opponents allege is meant to hide total deaths... you know, for like a few weeks?