TRUTH: The media as a whole has grossly misrepresented this disease.
We felt if we used the word "deliberately" we may have to present this as an opinion, but it sure appears deliberate. A couple of national examples include the CBS This Morning story referenced above and yesterday's CNN story. The headline read "Jacksonville beach packed as Florida coronavirus cases hit record" and they ran a photo taken in the past of a Los Angeles County beach to show the crowd.
Locally, on April 14, local news outlets used the headline, "Mayor Walt Maddox to Pitch Plan to Re-open Tuscaloosa on April 28th." While not technically untrue, that sounds like the plan is to re-open the city on April 28th. In reality, it should have read, "On April 28, Mayor Walt Maddox to Pitch Plan to Re-open Tuscaloosa," because no plan is even to be presented until April 28.
A Tuscaloosa News headline today read "Prison system reports COVID-19 death." You had to read the article to find the 66 year-old victim was already terminally ill and had been hospitalized since April 4th in critical care for his preexisting conditions. He only tested positive on the last day of his life.
OPINION: The way in which the media has pushed fear nonstop amounts to psychological warfare against this country. If it hasn't occurred to you that we have heard one story and essentially one story alone for literally two months, well, that should have aroused suspicion.
TRUTH: The media will continue to fight reopening of this country by stating "experts" predict a spike in deaths if we do so.
We would assume those are the same experts who initially predicted 2.2 million US deaths, revised to 200,000, then 100,000, then 60,000, then ordered testing all US deaths just in case they had coronavirus because we weren't on pace for even 30,000 prior to that change in policy.
