Coronavirus:

[Neil]

"The media destroyed Trump.

You do know that Fox News, Trump's personal cheerleading team, is the most watched news media in the nation? And the Wall Street Journal editorial page, one of the most conservative newspapers in the USA, a Trump sympathetic mouthpiece until very recently, is one of the most widely read print media in the country. Plus, of course, all the lunatics and fantasists whose nincompoop voices were amplified by Twitter, Facebook and such. A case can be made that the most widely circulated media were pro-Trump for most of the past 4 years.

The media didn't destroy Trump. Trump destroyed Trump. He's a would-be dictator and fascist, and fortunately, a total psycho as well. Most people picked up on that, with or without listening to editorials, opinion pieces, etc. He lost because the majority of American voters still can tell the difference between lies and truth, fake compassion and hate, etc. What is disturbing is the large number of Americans who could not realize that his "personality" was that of a self-serving narcissist and hate monger.

[gregj410]

You do know that Fox News, Trump's personal cheerleading team, is the most watched news media in the nation.

Dr Dumberg strikes again! Actually Neil Fox’s new ratings have been plummeting for some time now. I believe they recently finished third. Many have turned to OAN or Newsmax. But you, like Murph are incapable of thinking for yourself, you turn on the tv or open up the newspaper and regurgitate what it tells you. Maybe you and he can get together for some baking and poetry, maybe some coloring time in a safe space where you can cover the tough topics like how do I eat blueberries or snap fast track together

[up148]

San Diego has a two hour evening local newscast devoted to bashing business closures and restricted school athletic competition. It is interrupted only by the weather report and sports. Two hours! Each night!

I think the media is out of control and running unchecked. Rather than report the news, they think they have the right to make it, make it up or slant it. I don't expect anything to change until those controlling (oligarchs) the media have it taken away from them. And not sure that can happen again, as we live in a very different world than the one we grew up in.

[bob turner]

I agree - we need some straight newscasts. It is truly tough to get unbiased data - I lean left, and am entertained by left-leaning media. I try to balance it by reading principled conservative information when I can find it.

Apparently, Fox did have a "news" department that was separate from Hannity, Ingraham, and Carlson. That department, also apparently, got hammered for not being "pro-Trump." But nobody wanted to watch Shep or Chris - are they even still there?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

But nobody wanted to watch Shep or Chris - are they even still there?

Shep is now on MSNBC

[Chris Webster]

San Diego has a two hour evening local newscast devoted to bashing business closures and restricted school athletic competition. It is interrupted only by the weather report and sports. Two hours! Each night!

I hope that is not Dagmar Midcap's station -- she used to do weather here in Atlanta, but she left after a tragedy in her personal life

[MurphOnMillerAve]

I agree - we need some straight newscasts. It is truly tough to get unbiased data...

And who decides that - decides what is pure and unbiased ? The warm , welcoming, and friendly gregj ?

[Chris Webster]

Georgia Governor Brian Kemp said on Twitter that Georgia is only receiving 120,000 vaccine doses each week.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

You do know that Fox News, Trump's personal cheerleading team, is the most watched news media in the nation.

Dr Dumberg strikes again! Actually Neil Fox’s new ratings have been plummeting for some time now. I believe they recently finished third. Many have turned to OAN or Newsmax. But you, like Murph are incapable of thinking for yourself, you turn on the tv or open up the newspaper and regurgitate what it tells you. Maybe you and he can get together for some baking and poetry, maybe some coloring time in a safe space where you can cover the tough topics like how do I eat blueberries or snap fast track together

Are you trying for the Top-snot award on this forum ? Who made you the authority on right-thinking ? Your own unique egotism? Can we see your hair-style?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Georgia Governor Brian Kemp said on Twitter that Georgia is only receiving 120,000 vaccine doses each week.

Wow..............that's really low.

[Chris Webster]

Wow..............that's really low.

Did you see this story in the Washington Post?
Vaccine reserve was exhausted when Trump administration vowed to release it, dashing hopes of expanded access
States were anticipating a windfall after federal officials said they would stop holding back second doses. But the approach had already changed, and no stockpile exists.

[robert.]

Pa. And NJ. Have 1.4 million. I believe that to be a combined number. That would place the equal with Georgia. 45 percent of Pennsylvania health care workers won’t take it.

[rogruth]

What is the true story here ? are there enough doses or not? Who do we believe? This is news that the average person does not know what to believe. IMO.

[chuck]

What is the true story here ? are there enough doses or not? Who do we believe? This is news that the average person does not know what to believe. IMO.

Not clear. I don't know that anyone is knowingly lying or being misleading. I think there are a lot of clueless people that don't understand what they are doing (or worse what they are supposed to be doing). There was a case in Wisconsin where a pharmacist deliberately left 500 doses go bad/expire because he:

was an "admitted conspiracy theorist" and believed in a baseless rumor about their safety, authorities have said.

The Wisconsin pharmacist has told police that he believed the vaccine was capable of altering the human DNA and had thus left the vials out of the refrigerators.

Bad enough there isn't enough to go around without some a*hole that SHOULD know better destroying it (and not saying anything till well after). About 60 people were inoculated with the expired stuff and will have to be re-inoculated. At least there are no direct issues with getting "expired" doses, aka no direct danger other than you have zero protection. He was fired and is now facing multiple felony charges.

[robert.]

" There is virtually no influenza anywhere in the USA to speak of. .

Where did the flu go?