COVID misinformation in mainstream media, e.g., Carlson (Fox News) vs. CDC (Washington Post) ... #3

Last update: Sunday 10/23/22 

Donald Trump's exile from Twitter elevated Tucker Carlson to the GOP's "Mississippi Throne".  As the new  "father of lies", Mr. Carlson never closes the floodgates. His lies are usually whoppers, blatant unapologetic distortions of the truth. But he recently showed unexpected cunning by a tweet and his subsequent release of a video clip that, had either come from Joe Sixpack, would have gone unnoticed by the liberal/progressive mainstream media or, at most, shrugged off as an understandable misunderstanding. But coming from Carlson, the mainstream took the bait, so his tweet and video quickly exploded from viral to maga viral. 

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Last update: Monday 10/17/22 

"This is the way the world ends

This is the way the world ends

This is the way the world ends

Not with a bang but a whimper."

T.S. Eliot, The Hollow Men, 1925

Eliot published those words almost one hundred years ago, but they still make us queasy because we still meet complex, existential challenges, not by resolving them, but by muddling through them, one clumsy foot after another. Thus we blunder our way to a confused ending to a grossly mismanaged pandemic wherein a million people died in this country at a far higher rate than in any other so-called advanced nation.