Professors, Journalists Call Out Fux Noise Coronavirus Misinformation In Scathing Letter

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Dozens of professors and teachers of journalism and communications have signed a scathing open letter calling out Fox News’ coverage of the coronavirus crisis, describing it as “a danger to public health.”

Some 77 academics and journalists had signed the letter as of Thursday morning, accusing the widely watched conservative network of contributing “to the spread of a grave pandemic.”

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The signatories, led by Columbia Journalism School Professor Todd Gitlin, call on Fox Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch and his son, company CEO Lachlan Murdoch, “to help protect the lives of all Americans” by ensuring the network airs information “based on scientific facts.”

The letter notes that Fox News’ viewers — including President Donald Trump — have “been regularly subjected to misinformation,” such as:

False statements downplaying the prevalence of COVID-19 and its harms; misleading recommendations of activities that people should undertake to protect themselves and others, including casual recommendations of untested drugs; false assessments of the value of measures urged upon the public by their elected political leadership and public health authorities.

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/journalism-professors-fox-news-coronavirus-134137666.html

[Permanut]

1. Hmm. let's see, misinformatiion and false statements..

another word comes to mind.