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Corporate Media Cronyism is Undermining Public Faith in the Press
Major media outlets have repeatedly failed the public during this outbreak. Will there be any accountability?
If American voters are unhappy with Donald Trump, and the job he has done as president and in handling the Covid-19 outbreak, there is a simple, effective, constitutionally proscribed remedy ready at hand.
Come what may, the election that will determine if Trump serves a second term as president will take place in November. The moratorium on Donald Trump’s presidency will continue on schedule to its inevitable conclusion. Whatever that may be.
If only there were a solution for the press that were as straightforward.
That the U.S. media at large has failed to objectively cover the Trump administration is well-known on the right. That the the U.S. media failed to objectively cover the Bernie Sanders campaign well-known on the left.
Now, an even larger swath of the population has noticed a few odd things about how media networks have covered the Covid-19 outbreak.
While the Covid-19 outbreak has indeed been terrible, and any death toll is a devastating loss, it has not escaped public notice that early scientific models which predicted 2 million U.S. deaths- even if social-distancing and shut-downs took…