WASHINGTON — When Dr. Tom Frieden, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said this week on Fox News that Americans needed to wear face masks to protect themselves from the coronavirus, anchor Sandra Smith did not challenge him on the science. Or the policy. She did not accuse him of fearmongering, or working to undermine President Trump.
Another headline on the Fox News website earlier this week posed a question laced with obvious skepticism: “Wasn’t summer supposed to kill the coronavirus?” Among those who had hoped as much was the president, who suggested in April that warmer weather might defeat the pathogen, which causes a potentially deadly disease called COVID-19.
It was a remarkable turn for a news organization whose most prominent personalities have been among Trump’s most trusted advisers. However haltingly and incompletely, the president’s favorite news outlet has started to acknowledge, across various programs and its news site, that the coronavirus is a far graver threat than even Trump himself will acknowledge.
The recent outbreaks have been confined primarily to the Sun Belt and the Midwest, where both Trump and Fox News tend to be popular . A recent Harvard study found that “conservative media exposure correlates with higher levels of misinformation” about the coronavirus. “For some reason, over the last couple of weeks, a month, masks have become political,” said Steve Doocy, co-host of the president’s favored “Fox & Friends” morning program on Thursday.
Carlson recently blasted a mask decree by the mayor of Los Angeles, charging that it had been issued with “no scientific evidence whatsoever.”
didn't Fauci, the Surgeon General and WHO said at the onset of covid19 that people don't need to wear mask?
FAKE NEWS
Um what is there to say. ,,, I could get friend to say a few choice words, because if I said it, it wouldn't have the same impact. I don't know how to curse.
Fox 'News' has caused the deaths of thousands who believed them when they minimized the danger of Covid-19.
They will blame the Dems for wearing masks.
Need to stop playing this political game and realize that this virus has to run its course and masks and social distancing is only prolonging it. Let it happen and let’s all move on.
Finally
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That may actually help prevent spread! This is a positive move.
Better late than never I suppose.
It's called receiving fluid information and providing a proper analysis! LOL smh
Good!
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