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OT - lets face it. Half of the country wants to see Trump fail and another half want him to succeed. For covid we should hope 100% of country want to see him su
by salimmadjd 6y ago
OT - lets face it. Half of the country wants to see Trump fail and another half want him to succeed. For covid we should hope 100% of country want to see him succeed.
The problem is, part of that half is entire media enterprise (BTW, next adminstration will face the wrath of the other half of that enterprise) who have invested so much of their own credibility on Trump failing.
As a result I have little confidence (just knowing how the CYA-mindset works inside any type of corporations) that we will ever hear a correction with (or nearly with) the same magnitude that will inform the public of the updates. It's unclear what data ultimately comes out of the Hydroxychloroquine research, maybe no update is needed. But I just don't have the confidence we'll get any mea culpa broadcasted across the airways. Nor will I expect much, if any, of my social media contacts who posted some of the articles to post the correction.
Trump is a polarizing figure, but I don't understand (outside of increase ratings) why the media falls for his traps day after day.
It's possible Trump might accidentally be right once (or not completely wrong), if the media can not remain objective, the entire nation will lose faith in the institution of journalism as a whole. Opening the doors for all types of conspiracies and people searching for alternative news sources.
This will eventually lead to a showdown between Facebook and these media entities that Facebook should ban anything outside of the few established news outlets to prevent the spread of disinformation. Which is another bad policy, because people ultimately leave Facebook to other places to find these disinformation or alternate sources.
Doing some basic fact checking on this company, before taking their research at face value, especially given there was so much red flags, is what should separate established media from someone writing a blog post in Romania. This is really a massive failure, given the vitality of information around COIVD.