Hi Charlie, Re: Covid derangement. I don’t know if you saw the NYTIMES article today about how Covid deaths in US are much higher than in other countries. There was nothing in the article about the active efforts of so many in GOP & media to undermine vaccine efficacy & deny severity of covid. There was passing mention, at the end of th…
Hi Charlie, Re: Covid derangement. I don’t know if you saw the NYTIMES article today about how Covid deaths in US are much higher than in other countries. There was nothing in the article about the active efforts of so many in GOP & media to undermine vaccine efficacy & deny severity of covid. There was passing mention, at the end of the article, about how so many Americans distrust media, science, institutions, but no mention of how RW media stokes that distrust. That a mainstream newspaper like NYT ignores impact of Fox, radio & GOP feels purposeful at this point. Fox and talk-radio have been around for a generation & have largely caused our parallel information universes, extreme partisan politics & GOP obstruction. Can you spend more time on this topic? It feels like democracy depends on it. Thank you.
100% agree. I was GOP for over 30 years and the only reason I can deduce for being able to pull out of it was when I stopped watching RW media when Obama got elected. I didn't vote for him but was appalled at their response to him...before he had made a single decision in office. It was at that point that I decided the kool-aid wasn't good for me. This gave me 8 years of non-brainwashing...which only made my jaw drop even more when I went back on Fox when Trump was elected and saw what was going on. It was brainwashing city...and they all had the same (wrong) talking points. Case-in-point: The Clinton's head an international assassin group that secretly kills people all over the world. Now...whether all of them believe these type of asinine things is a different matter, but what I think is most important...is that they don't push back and tacitly accept it. So...Trump gets elected....and they don't like what he says, does or tweets...but they accept it. They have created an environment where there's nothing worse than Dems....including Trump.
Hi Charlie, Re: Covid derangement. I don’t know if you saw the NYTIMES article today about how Covid deaths in US are much higher than in other countries. There was nothing in the article about the active efforts of so many in GOP & media to undermine vaccine efficacy & deny severity of covid. There was passing mention, at the end of the article, about how so many Americans distrust media, science, institutions, but no mention of how RW media stokes that distrust. That a mainstream newspaper like NYT ignores impact of Fox, radio & GOP feels purposeful at this point. Fox and talk-radio have been around for a generation & have largely caused our parallel information universes, extreme partisan politics & GOP obstruction. Can you spend more time on this topic? It feels like democracy depends on it. Thank you.
100% agree. I was GOP for over 30 years and the only reason I can deduce for being able to pull out of it was when I stopped watching RW media when Obama got elected. I didn't vote for him but was appalled at their response to him...before he had made a single decision in office. It was at that point that I decided the kool-aid wasn't good for me. This gave me 8 years of non-brainwashing...which only made my jaw drop even more when I went back on Fox when Trump was elected and saw what was going on. It was brainwashing city...and they all had the same (wrong) talking points. Case-in-point: The Clinton's head an international assassin group that secretly kills people all over the world. Now...whether all of them believe these type of asinine things is a different matter, but what I think is most important...is that they don't push back and tacitly accept it. So...Trump gets elected....and they don't like what he says, does or tweets...but they accept it. They have created an environment where there's nothing worse than Dems....including Trump.