The Media is a Public Health Crisis

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They have declared on America.

The Media is a Public Health Crisis

Always making a crisis worse.

March 23, 2020

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By: Daniel Greenfield, FPM, March 23, 2020:

Bars, restaurants, offices, libraries, and schools have shut down. Times Square and Los Angeles freeways are deserted. But the media goes on, without a break, spreading distrust, doubt, and panic. Everything in the United States can shut down, but like roaches emerging from the rubble of a postapocalyptic world, the media goes on lying, smearing, and undermining the President of the United States.

The media only knows how to do one thing and that’s take a crisis and make it even worse.

While much of the country was coping with the massive dislocation caused by the Wuhan Flu, the media was focused on accusing President Trump of racism for calling it the Chinese virus.

At a White House press briefing meant to provide the public with information about the government’s plans to fight the virus, reporters complained about the name. The briefing interruptus was a small sample of the nomenclature campaign by the nomenklatura obsessed with political correctness.

While entirely missing the point.

The People’s Republic of China has rolled out a sophisticated campaign to blame the Wuhan Flu on the United States. In a time when there’s no barrier to conspiracy theories, the ChiComs know that a portion of the population will believe that the Wuhan Flu came out of one of our labs, instead of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, just like they believe that a Communist defector didn’t kill JFK, America didn’t land on the moon, or that Islamic terrorists didn’t fly planes into the World Trade Center.

What’s at stake here is more than bragging rights. The People’s Republic understands that the Chinese Century, its manifest destiny of becoming the leading world power, is on the line. The Wuhan Flu significantly undermined its global credibility. The only way out is to shift the blame and convince the world and useful idiots in this country that the virus is really America’s fault.

If China wins the race to reemerge successfully from the Wuhan Flu and establishes economic preeminence once again, the Chinese Century is back on the menu. And that requires sabotaging America’s recovery both in our own country and on the world stage.

Every time President Trump calls it the Chinese virus, he’s making an important point. Meanwhile the media has become a repository of People’s Republic propaganda. The problem extends far beyond whether to call it the coronavirus, the Wuhan Flu, COVID-19, or the Chinese virus.

The media has met this crisis, the way it has every other, by persistently undermining President Trump’s leadership. Repeatedly interrupting his press briefing for ChiCom memes is not an aberration, but how the media has tackled the subject of the Wuhan Flu all along.

Even President Bush received a “crisis honeymoon” after September 11 in which the media briefly projected calls for national unity and solidarity. There has been none of that with this virus. Instead the media has reacted to the pandemic the way that it did to Hurricane Katrina.

After years of stirring up divisiveness as a political and profit model, why change now?

The media’s message is that POTUS is inept, incompetent, and incapable. That no one should listen to him or trust him to lead us through this emergency (while repeatedly holding up China as a model) and that the only thing to do is panic, panic some more, and vote Biden.

The Wuhan Flu shows that the media is the country’s real public health crisis.

Faced with a pandemic, the media never asked itself what its responsibility to the country might be beyond doubling down on its efforts to defeat Trump and elect a Democrat. Instead it has amplified misinformation, undermined the country’s leadership, and spread defeatism.

The media’s usual nasty habit of accusing President Trump of lying (accompanied by mendacious fact checks which don’t check facts, but spin political narratives) is a lot more dangerous than usual during an outbreak in which it’s important for the public to believe what the President of the United States is telling them about safe and unsafe behaviors.

Like the ChiComs, the media has no problem worsening the disaster to score political points.

In just the last few hours, the media has run hysterical smears with headlines like the New York Times’, “The President Is Lying About Coronavirus” whose goal is to undermine Trump. The media presumably believes that the general public will understand the distinction between accusing President Trump of lying about the Wuhan Flu, take Vanity Fair’s “Every Time Trump Opens His Mouth, Nine Lies Fly Out: Coronavirus Edition”, and taking his health advice for staying safe from the Wuhan Flu.

But there’s no reason to think that the public share the media’s complicated ideological calculations.

When the media undermines trust in a nation’s leader during an emergency, it causes panic, fear, and doubt. You can’t tell the public that they shouldn’t believe anything President Trump says, except when it comes to advising an end to larger gatherings and avoiding exposure by the elderly.

Normal people’s brains don’t work this way.

The entire country does not share the media’s ideological filter. The reality that Hillary Clinton isn’t in the White House, but is instead accusing President Trump of racism for calling it the Chinese virus, should have brought that fact home to even the most blinkered media echo chambers.

When the media tells the public not to trust President Trump, it’s also telling the public not to trust his public safety advisories or anything coming from the White House team fighting the Wuhan Flu.

Period.

Even as the media scores record profits from views and clicks of its hysterical and uninformed virus coverage, it doesn’t actually care about the people at risk or those whose lives have been overturned. What it cares about is monetizing its coverage and weaponizing it to put Biden in the White House.

That’s just politics. And it’s not alone.

Bad actors like The Lincoln Project and PACROYM have decided that their campaign to beat Trump shouldn’t take a break during a public health emergency. But it’s one thing when PACs run ads targeting the President of the United States during a crisis, that’s politics, albeit in very bad taste, and another when the media, which wants to be seen as a source of credible information, does the same thing.

National unity during a crisis would have the White House and the media communicating the same message. And it would be a message that the entire country would be able to put its trust in.

Instead the media is tainting the pool, attacking the credibility of President Trump, forcing him to retaliate, and sending mixed messages at a time when people need clear and simple health advice.

Local governments have shut down bars and eateries. Nobody has shut down the media. But an hour of CNN is far more of a public health threat than all the bars in all the cities of the country.

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TheBottomLineGuy
TheBottomLineGuy
4 years ago

Forget about the Corona virus. America’s real killer is the ‘CPV’; The ‘Career Politician Virus’ which will destroy this country unless a simple and known vaccine –TERM LIMITS, is used ASAP.

patd
patd
4 years ago

Good one…they all go in never working a day in their lives and come out multi-millionaires!!!!!

sumsrent
sumsrent
4 years ago

Yes… “people need clear and simple health advice”

I love Daniel… but I disagree with his opinion here. The massive lying idiot Trumpo and his lousy Task Force… have failed America miserably. And NO I’m not a supporter of Killary, Dementia Joe, Bernie or the satanic islamic loving Barrack Hussein…

I’m simply calling it for what it is… the massive lying idiot Trumpo is a massive LIAR!!!

Trumpo (trumpet mouth) is the best idiot of all the idiots… for now. Shameful we can’t get a person who isn’t an idiot to lead this country…

[edit] For instance… Rick Warren claims to be a Christian… but Warren advocates unification with satanic islam… <<< Thus… I can't speak good about Rick Warren… and… I have NOTHING to say positive with how the idiot Trumpo has handled CV19…

santashandler
santashandler
4 years ago
Reply to  sumsrent

You keep saying what an idiot Trump is for how he has handled the situation. But, you have said NOTHING on what he was supposed to have done differently to make it better. Why is that? Share your knowledge here with everyone, since you seem to have the key our President doesn’t have, or know about. What are you waiting for? If you can’t even do that, keep your comments to yourself.

sumsrent
sumsrent
4 years ago
Reply to  santashandler

Of course I’ve made clear what the idiot Trumpo should have done differently…

If you can’t see or find them… that’s your fault…

So… shut up

santashandler
santashandler
4 years ago
Reply to  sumsrent

Typical. Just like the rest. You people start fires, but cant back up your claims. Go Finish Your Kool Aid

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
4 years ago
Reply to  santashandler

Why are you even giving little sumsrent the moslem, the time of day. You DO know that moslems, such as sumsrent, are FAR too stupid to even understand your question.

santashandler
santashandler
4 years ago

You know, you’re right, Mohandjob. I had a moment. Must be the age…..

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
4 years ago
Reply to  santashandler

Pardon me, I’m old. That’s my story and I’m stickin’ to it.

ed
ed
4 years ago
Reply to  santashandler

Hahahaha….you implied that dums rent has “knowledge” to share……thanks for the laugh, sh !!!

santashandler
santashandler
4 years ago
Reply to  ed

🙂

Anthony Silvio
Anthony Silvio
4 years ago

Pelosi, Schumer and DNC; ” To combat coronavirus America needs Solar Panels, Windmills, Abortion on Demand, Airplane fuel consumption decreases, Rescue checks for illegals and $35 Million for John F. Kennedy Performing Arts Center ”
……… WTF ARE THESE PEOPLE DOING ??!!!

sumsrent
sumsrent
4 years ago
Reply to  Anthony Silvio

And to think… If Hospitals get beyond swamped…

And they have to decide who to let die… and who to let live. <<< Like they're doing in Spain.

Will younger illegals get to live… while those older folks who have paid into the system all their lives get the ax…

What about those of us that have paid Health Insurance? Do I get less care than a welfare recipient?

Yeah… America is in Deep Trouble…

stephen5970
stephen5970
4 years ago
Reply to  sumsrent

Older illegals paid into the system?

sumsrent
sumsrent
4 years ago
Reply to  stephen5970

Where did you get the idea that “older folks who have paid into the system all their lives” are older illegals?

Chris Wolf
Chris Wolf
4 years ago

Jake Tapper is a whiney little bitch.
America doesn’t pay attention to a whiney little bitch.

stephen5970
stephen5970
4 years ago
Reply to  Chris Wolf

Unfortunately, many do. They tend to vote Democrat.

ed
ed
4 years ago
Reply to  Chris Wolf

Anderson Cooper and Don Lemon must then be punk-asss bitches……

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
4 years ago

Journalism in this country isn’t dead, it’s decomposing.

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