Science desk: The Docs Who Cried Wolf
While many “people across the political spectrum erred” in comparing the coronavirus to the flu, it isn’t their fault, Dennis Saffran argues at American Greatness.
Pandemic journal: Listen to Skeptics
Many media critics of President Trump are “dismayed” at his call to “get our country open” again, casting “the lockdown debate as a straightforward battle between a pro-human and a pro-economy camp.”
Indeed, many “prominent African-American entertainers” are happy to be pictured with him, and Farrakhan even “has his own place of honor in the National Museum of African American History and Culture on the Washington Mall.”
Media critic: A CNN Meltdown
“Call it a symptom of Trump Derangement Syndrome,” snarks Tristan Justice at The Federalist: “CNN’s Brian Stelter suffered an on-air meltdown Sunday over conservative media paying any attention to arguably the largest spy scandal in American history”: the Obama administration’s campaign against the incoming Team Trump.
Of course, those media do cover the pandemic, while Stelter ignores the fact that “CNN led the media’s infatuation with Russiagate conspiracy theories distracting the country from preparing for the kind of pandemic seen today.”
