Re: Traitor Trump and Subversive FOX News In Tandem in Ignoring 100,000 Covid Dead

On Thu, 28 May 2020 13:22:02 -0000 (UTC), cicero venatio
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>> To begin her program on Wednesday night, Rachel Maddow walked viewers
>> through the front pages of the nation's top news organizations. Maddow
>> pointed out that the top headlines across the board were about the
>> United States passing a grim milestone: 100,000 deaths from coronavirus.
>> NYT, WaPo, CNN and others were all leading with that story, she
>> explained to viewers. 
>> 
>> But there was one outlier. "Just so you're aware, this is what is, in
>> contrast, this is what is the front page for our friends at the Fox News
>> Channel right now," Maddow said. "It's as you can see a little bit
>> different." Indeed, above the fold, Fox was covering everything but the
>> death toll. "If you scroll down and scroll down and scroll down,
>> eventually you do get ƒ " they do ultimately get to, oh yeah, 100,000
>> Americans dead," Maddow said. "They do get to it eventually." 
>> 
>> Maddow's observation was not unique to Fox's homepage. The network's
>> on-air programming Wednesday night was similar. None of its prime time
>> shows led with the somber news regarding the death toll. Martha
>> MacCallum, who hosts what is supposed to be Fox's go-to "straight news"
>> program, started her show with the story regarding a student suspected
>> of two homicides. It took her more than 50 minutes to get to the news
>> about 100,000 dead Americans. She saved it for her last segment. 
>> 
>> Tucker Carlson led his program with a monologue on "Big Tech
>> censorship." Sean Hannity with live-coverage of the Minneapolis
>> protests. And Laura Ingraham with a call to reopen the country and an
>> attack on Dr. Anthony Fauci. Ingraham even found time for a "FARTGATE
>> 2020" segment. (You really can't make it up.) 
>> 
>> Like the President, whose Twitter feed focused on everything but the
>> death toll Wednesday night, Fox largely looked away as the death toll
>> crossed 100,000. If historians were to go back and watch Fox News on the
>> night the country passed 100,000 deaths, they'd be forgiven if they
>> didn't know it happened. 
>> 
>> This is, of course, part of a larger pattern. A study by the progressive
>> watchdog Media Matters found that "between May 11 and May 26, the
>> coronavirus's total U.S. numeric death toll was mentioned between the
>> hours of 8-11 p.m. on Fox only 11 times in almost 36 hours of
>> programming." And I previously reported that Fox had one week traded in
>> its coverage of coronavirus to go all in on the President's "OBAMAGATE"
>> conspiracy. 
>> 
>> It is all remarkable. We are living through what is widely considered to
>> be one of the greatest stories in a generation, and the country's
>> most-watched cable news network keeps putting it on the back burner. 
>> 
>> https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/28/media/fox-news-coronavirus-deaths-reliable
>> -sources/index.html 
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>No one cares about dead Americans.   Mostly feeble, old, white, male Trump 
>supporters who used to watch Fox News all day and vote Trump before the 
>TrumpVirus killed 'em.   Let the bodies pile up and rot in the streets as a 
>testament about the greatest for profit health insurance system in the 
>world!!

and you morons wonder why we don't want dempcrappers in office.