Don’t Trust: Verify
The U.S. press is failing the public on COVID-19 coverage. And helping Donald Trump.
The outbreak of COVID-19 has already altered many facets of American life, perhaps permanently. What it has not done, however, is increase our collective faith in the U.S. media.
A majority of people do not approve of the job media outlets are doing covering COVID-19.
In these strange times, the unprecedented government response to the COVID-19 outbreak has ground the U.S. economy- which had been clipping along at a smart pace- to a crushing halt. This was terrible news for everyone, almost as terrible as the idea of a deadly new virus sweeping through the population.
After all, poverty can also kill. For people in America perched precariously on the precipice of financial devastation- of which, we have learned, there are far too many- the financial aspect of this crisis has hit with particular ferocity.
The economic downturn was not wonderful news for Donald Trump, either. The outbreak of a deadly disease aside- the prosperity, the manufacturing renaissance, the jobs gains; everything the Trump administration had been carefully building for the past three years had been wiped away in an instant.
But not all the news amid coronavirus has been bad for Donald Trump. On the contrary, some of the best…