***BOMBSHELL*** I'd like a dime for every time that term gets used.
***BOMBSHELL*** I'd like a dime for every time that term gets used.
Docthehun (05-30-2021)
Media outlets that derided COVID lab-leak theory last year now scramble to save face.....
Hypothesis has gone from "fringe theory" to a major presidential consideration.
Major media outlets are scrambling to adjust their coverage of the COVID-19 "lab-leak" theory that many of them spent the past year deriding, one sign among many that the theory is gaining broader currency in the coronavirus debate after being dismissed as a "fringe" conspiracy for much of the pandemic.
The theory, which was first proposed in the earliest days of the pandemic at the start of 2020, holds that the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a major coronavirus research site located just a few miles from the putative first outbreak of SARS-Cov-2, may have been responsible for a laboratory leak that launched the pandemic.
The Wuhan lab has for years been conducting experiments into coronaviruses to determine their "emergence potential," or their capacity for jumping into human beings and potentially causing epidemics or pandemics. The lab has reportedly been at least instrumentally involved in risky "gain-of-function" research, in which scientists increase the pathogenicity of viruses in order to determine their pandemic potential.
Some commentators and public officials, such as Arkansas Republican Sen. Tom Cotton, were in the earliest months of the pandemic quick to note the first outbreak's proximity to the Wuhan lab and argue for the need to investigate it as a possible source of the pandemic. Yet media outlets spent much of last year either subtly or directly minimizing such suspicions, arguing instead for the allegedly high likelihood of the virus's natural origin......snip~
Media outlets that derided COVID lab-leak theory last year now scramble to save face | Just The News
Note the New York Slimes, NPR, CNN the main 3.
"Most MSM reporters didn't 'ignore' the lab leak theory," Washington Post columnist Josh Rogin tweeted Saturday, "they actively crapped all over it for over a year while pretending to be objective out of a toxic mix of confirmation bias, source bias (their scientist sources lied to them), group think, TDS and general incompetence.".....snip~
Now that JoeyB and Team Deviant are looking into the matter Lame Stream Media is scrambling for credibility again.
Rogin curtly rejects the premise that new evidence accounts for the about-face within the media. The "lab leak theory didn't change," he tweeted. "It didn't suddenly become credible. It didn't jump from crazy to reasonable. The theory has always been the same. The people who got it wrong changed their minds. They are writing about themselves, with zero self awareness.".....snip~
PolitiFact this month retracted a "pants-of-fire" rating it gave to the lab-leak theory last year, claiming the virus’s origin "is now more widely disputed" than it was last year. (The ostensibly neutral fact-checking site is owned by the Poynter Institute, a journalism training nonprofit partly funded by progressive megadonor George Soros.) Facebook, meanwhile, this week announced that it would no longer ban users from asserting that the SARS-Cov-2 virus may have been manmade. .....snip~
Ever since Nixon the Lame Stream Media thinks they have the power and are the powerbroker. Ever since their Hosts and Political Hacks/Pundits have starred in movies they now believe they are the Elite. No different than Hollywood Celebs. The American People need to rise up and show them who really has the power. Ending their influence ASAP!
History does not long Entrust the care of Freedom, to the Weak or Timid!!!!! Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
The left wing media and their fact checkers need to be gone.
ΜOΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ
Peter1469 (05-31-2021)
Maybe he was right back then.
But, trusting China to do it safely was a huge error. Financing the research and then telling us they could read the results on the internet is 100% unbelievable.
One of the reasons were ale to get a vaccine as fast as we did was because scientist were working on the methods to control new strains before this virus hit the world.
MMC (05-31-2021)
Even after a whistleblower from the Lab made it to Hong Kong and then here to the USA. Told the BBC and all what the Chinese were doing. Then hearing about her family all being locked up. All because she dropped the dime on them. The Lame Stream Media still wouldnt do their jobs.
Now they want to do their job after JoeyB stopped the investigation by the IC under trump. Only now to reopen the Investigation with the IC.
The people need to wake up and deal with the LSM and not just by not tuning into their news shows.
History does not long Entrust the care of Freedom, to the Weak or Timid!!!!! Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
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