[fanofourforebears]

This morning I saw Ali Velshi interview a former country health officer who resigned her position after threats, including to her family.  You might ask why this didn't get put in the health officials under threat thread, but that's not what the thrust of this post is about.



She said - and this is the first time I have heard this - there are some people sick with Covid, even about to be put on ventilators who won't accept they have Covid-19 because they think it is a hoax.  I just about spit out my Cheerios.  It's one thing to claim something is a hoax when you aren't personally experiencing it. It's quite another to deny you have it when you do.  I mean this is like being on fire and saying you aren't on fire.

So, would you rather the patient who does not want to get killed by being put on a ventilator if this might be the wrong treatment, shut up, believe they have Covid-19 and allow themselves to be put out and maybe killed while they are in their sleep?

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I hate the way those media bias charts are done too. Here's my assessment of the media landscape.  


I don't think the focus should be on the ideological spectrum as much as whether the information provided is factual, based on high standards of journalism, or opinion based on no standards of journalism.  I also think you need to separate the WSJ and the WSJ Opinion page, because they are totally different. Maybe even Fox News Channel daytime/website news reporting and its nighttime opinion hosts too.

The $ signs are there to demonstrate that fact-finding journalism costs a lot of money and opinion based media is very cheap. So if you buy into the "you get what you pay for" mentality, you'll know most opinion-based stuff should be looked at with a high degree of skepticism in terms of its factualness. The corporate news media mostly operates on a what is happening now, "live" basis. It's easy to report facts about what people are saying or doing in the moment, but facts don't paint the picture of the actual truth unfolding. That's what investigative reporting does. 

My perception is there is no such thing as conservative investigative journalism. All the investigative journalism I ever see is from places like Pro Publica, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Salon, Mother Jones, Newspapers, etc. that are usually reporting on things that appeal to a liberal audience or qualified that way by conservatives. If there are any sources of conservative-oriented investigative journalism, please tell me. Project Veritas doesn't count!

Yeah, go ahead and violate the Terry rule.. Slam anyone who might be regressive or conservative and claim only those of your political worldview have truth.

[fanofourforebears]

This morning I saw Ali Velshi interview a former country health officer who resigned her position after threats, including to her family.  You might ask why this didn't get put in the health officials under threat thread, but that's not what the thrust of this post is about.



She said - and this is the first time I have heard this - there are some people sick with Covid, even about to be put on ventilators who won't accept they have Covid-19 because they think it is a hoax.  I just about spit out my Cheerios.  It's one thing to claim something is a hoax when you aren't personally experiencing it. It's quite another to deny you have it when you do.  I mean this is like being on fire and saying you aren't on fire.

So, would you rather the patient who does not want to get killed by being put on a ventilator if this might be the wrong treatment, shut up, believe they have Covid-19 and allow themselves to be put out and maybe killed while they are in their sleep?

---

I hate the way those media bias charts are done too. Here's my assessment of the media landscape.  


I don't think the focus should be on the ideological spectrum as much as whether the information provided is factual, based on high standards of journalism, or opinion based on no standards of journalism.  I also think you need to separate the WSJ and the WSJ Opinion page, because they are totally different. Maybe even Fox News Channel daytime/website news reporting and its nighttime opinion hosts too.

The $ signs are there to demonstrate that fact-finding journalism costs a lot of money and opinion based media is very cheap. So if you buy into the "you get what you pay for" mentality, you'll know most opinion-based stuff should be looked at with a high degree of skepticism in terms of its factualness. The corporate news media mostly operates on a what is happening now, "live" basis. It's easy to report facts about what people are saying or doing in the moment, but facts don't paint the picture of the actual truth unfolding. That's what investigative reporting does. 

My perception is there is no such thing as conservative investigative journalism. All the investigative journalism I ever see is from places like Pro Publica, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Salon, Mother Jones, Newspapers, etc. that are usually reporting on things that appeal to a liberal audience or qualified that way by conservatives. If there are any sources of conservative-oriented investigative journalism, please tell me. Project Veritas doesn't count!

Yeah, go ahead and violate the Terry rule.. Slam anyone who might be regressive or conservative and claim only those of your political worldview have truth.