Modern journalism is all about deciding which facts the public shouldn't know because they might reflect badly on Democrats.
For example, yesterday I caught the Washington Post in a vile and consequential lie (CDC director Frieden is a political hack, going back to the ban on large drinks etc. in NYC, see also his contradictory comments in two back to back sentences on bus travel); the author is "a general assignment national reporter for the Washington Post":
From the beginning of the Ebola crisis, disease experts and Frieden in particular have insisted that U.S. hospitals have the training and equipment to handle a highly contagious patient. On July 21, Frieden said that “Ebola poses little risk to the U.S. general population.” Any advanced hospital in the country has the capacity to isolate a patient, he said. “There is nothing particularly special about the isolation of an Ebola patient other than it’s really important to do it right,” he said at the time.
Did you notice the quick shift from and to direct quotes with a paraphrase in the middle? I noticed that because the real quote is now infamous and disastrously proven false:
"Essentially any hospital in the country can take care of Ebola. You don't need a special hospital room to do it," Dr. Tom Frieden said Oct. 2. "You do need a private room with a private bathroom."
BTW, to my general knowledge, ER rooms do not have private bathrooms.
Anyway, my current research into this is reading Albert Camus' 1947 La Peste (The Plague); inevitable partisanship aside, I'm getting the impression a lot of this is universal when humans are faced with such a dire thing. It's not like we don't have millennia of experience with plagues.
While we indeed don't want to get political, that's impossible and I have to point out Jim Treacher's comment on the role of the US national media:
https://twitter.com/jtLOL/status/501493192953319424
Modern journalism is all about deciding which facts the public shouldn't know because they might reflect badly on Democrats.
For example, yesterday I caught the Washington Post in a vile and consequential lie (CDC director Frieden is a political hack, going back to the ban on large drinks etc. in NYC, see also his contradictory comments in two back to back sentences on bus travel); the author is "a general assignment national reporter for the Washington Post":
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/dallas...
From the beginning of the Ebola crisis, disease experts and Frieden in particular have insisted that U.S. hospitals have the training and equipment to handle a highly contagious patient. On July 21, Frieden said that “Ebola poses little risk to the U.S. general population.” Any advanced hospital in the country has the capacity to isolate a patient, he said. “There is nothing particularly special about the isolation of an Ebola patient other than it’s really important to do it right,” he said at the time.
Did you notice the quick shift from and to direct quotes with a paraphrase in the middle? I noticed that because the real quote is now infamous and disastrously proven false:
"Essentially any hospital in the country can take care of Ebola. You don't need a special hospital room to do it," Dr. Tom Frieden said Oct. 2. "You do need a private room with a private bathroom."
BTW, to my general knowledge, ER rooms do not have private bathrooms.
Anyway, my current research into this is reading Albert Camus' 1947 La Peste (The Plague); inevitable partisanship aside, I'm getting the impression a lot of this is universal when humans are faced with such a dire thing. It's not like we don't have millennia of experience with plagues.