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The Washington Post’s explanation for this phenomenon is truly deranged. It is not their fault for being journalistic hacks who are unable to process objective information, no matter the political affiliation of the messenger. It is Donald Trump’s fault for being a president that they truly detest and amplifying a story that they otherwise might be open to investigation. This is truly bat****-crazy bizarro-world stuff, folks.
“It has become evident that some corners of the mainstream media overcorrected when it came to one particular theory from Trump and his allies: that the coronavirus emanated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, rather than naturally,” WaPo’s Aaron Blake wrote in a piece on Monday. “It’s also true that many criticisms of the coverage are overwrought and that Trump’s and his allies’ claims invited and deserved skepticism.”
This is what happens when one relies on secondhand information and "analysis" of another journalist's work (although I hesitate to call anyone at Becker News a journalist). I suggest you find the actual Washington Post column and read it from start to finish.
In the column, the author is analyzing the media coverage of the claim that the virus originated in the Wuhan lab, and why it went the way it did.
It has been said many times that Donald Trump’s presidency was a stress test for democracy. And that’s certainly true. (It’s a reality that very much persists to this date.)
But it was also a stress test for those charged with covering it. What do you do when someone bulldozes so many political norms and unwritten rules of political discourse?
You mean like making baseless claims that the President colluded with Russia to win the election... for 3 years?? Or is a 3 year hoax considered "normal" political discourse?
Evidence has increasingly pointed to the plausibility of the “lab leak” theory, which most scientists and the media (often citing those same scientists) originally downplayed or, in some cases, dismissed. The latest example is a Wall Street Journal report that cites U.S. intelligence that three workers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology became so ill in November 2019 — shortly before the virus was unleashed not just on Wuhan but eventually the world — that they required hospital care. This is unverified intelligence, but leading infectious-disease expert Anthony S. Fauci, who downplayed the lab leak theory in the past, was asked recently whether he was still confident about that, and he said, “No, actually.” He urged further investigation.
Fauci lied. Actually he didn't technically lie, as he only "downplayed" the leak theory.
However, Fauci co-authored a piece back in September 2020 that blamed the wet markets. And now he is urging an investigation at the lab?
It is suspected that SARS-CoV-2 emerged in 2019, as did SARS-CoV in 2002, and as did H5N1 and H7N9 poultry-associated influenza, in 1997 and 2013, respectively, from wet markets in China (Morens et al., 2020a; Morens et al., 2020b). These four diseases may thus represent four deadly emergences, within an 18-year span, from one cultural practice in one region of the world.
And then Jen Psaki said today the US will only work through The WHO and is not demanding any data from the Chinese Gov't. Why is Neville Biden doing this? Why is the US interest here going through some bureaucratic org?
This is what happens when one relies on secondhand information and "analysis" of another journalist's work (although I hesitate to call anyone at Becker News a journalist). I suggest you find the actual Washington Post column and read it from start to finish.
In the column, the author is analyzing the media coverage of the claim that the virus originated in the Wuhan lab, and why it went the way it did.
Reading is fundamental.
yes, and..?
he whined that their failure to take the lab leak possibility seriously was all Trump's fault. it's quoted above. I suggest you try reading it, since that's 'fundamental' and all.
They are admitting they aren't journalists and nothing they reported on during Trumps Presidency was based on anything other than their hatred of Trump.
Yes, yes. WE KNOW THAT, but it's good to hear them admit it. They can and should just close up shop now.
This is what happens when one relies on secondhand information and "analysis" of another journalist's work (although I hesitate to call anyone at Becker News a journalist). I suggest you find the actual Washington Post column and read it from start to finish.
In the column, the author is analyzing the media coverage of the claim that the virus originated in the Wuhan lab, and why it went the way it did.
Reading is fundamental.
Yet you think the DNC activists working at WaPo and NYT are "journalists." You are the best at making me laugh with your unintentional humor.
The scary part is you actually think you are superior and correct when writing your nonsense.
he whined that their failure to take the lab leak possibility seriously was all Trump's fault.
Incorrect. Try reading the Washington Post article at the source.
The author of the Washington Post article faults the lack of evidence to back up the Trump administration's claims, and why any evidence was not brought forward if it did exist at the time. He does not blame Trump for the actual coverage of the issue, as the questionable and highly biased "source" you provided does. There is a difference.
(By the way, isn't it ironic how you refer to Aaron Blake as "unhinged", when the author of the Becker News "article" is the one using inflammatory language, making unfounded accusations, and spewing partisan bullcrap)
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Given how the Trump administration handled intelligence, there is very little doubt that, if some kind of proof had existed, Trump would have pushed hard for its release. Trump could have done so whenever he wanted. It never happened. The best evidence for it has emerged a year later, with Trump out of power.
Looking into my Crystal Ball..................Hahahahahaha.........
China will be found culpable in the world courts and Fauci will be imprisoned......................
The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board wrote an editorial shortly after both Trump’s and Pompeo’s comments calling for evidence of their claims. “If they don’t want the issue to be dismissed as an anti-China campaign ploy, they should make the evidence public,” the WSJ editorial board said.
The "conservative" Wall St Journal also has the CCP as a customer and has received millions of dollars since 2016. Somehow that didn't make the article. Maybe that's because WaPo also takes millions of dollars from the CCP.
Trump had every reason in his book to lay this at China’s feet even more than the available evidence dictated. And that’s not just because the “lab leak” theory more directly implied wrongdoing by China, but also because it was a necessary predicate to an even-more-conspiratorial theory: that this was some kind of bioweapon engineered by the Chinese. (Even if the virus did come from the Wuhan lab, that doesn’t mean it was deliberately released. Doubts about the latter remain significantly greater.)
If Trump made that claim, it was because a Chinese virologist made the claim first.
“This virus actually is not from nature,” Dr. Li-Meng Yan told Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”
“It is a man-made virus created in the lab based on the very unique bat coronavirus which cannot affect people but after the modifications it becomes a very harmful virus. So I have evidence to show why they can do it, what they have done, how did they do it.”
“What you’re saying is much more sinister even than what we have suggested on the show … You are saying that the Chinese government manufactured this virus, if I’m hearing you correctly. That’s what you’re saying?” Host Tucker Carlson interjected.
“Yes exactly,” the virologist responded. “Based on the virus genome, it’s basically like our fingerprint so you can see the very unusual characters in their genome, which clearly, based on the other evidence they left during the modification, we can finally see that this comes from their own special bat coronavirus.”
Man made virus means "gain-to-function" technology - that Fauci facilitated at Wuhan through Peter Dazsak at the Eco Health Alliance.
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