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Fox prime time marks the 500,000th U.S. pandemic death with the same lies that helped get us there
We should keep in mind that without a right wing media ecosystem, Trump would never have been elected. Trump is no longer President, but we still have a right wing media ecosystem that promotes racism and conspiracy theories in order to enforce a coalition between racists who vote and the top 1 percent who underwrite Republican campaigns.
https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-prime-time-marks-500000th-us-pandemic-death-same-lies-helped-get-us-there
President Joe Biden mourned the “grim, heartbreaking milestone” of 500,000 Americans recorded killed in the COVID-19 pandemic in a sunset ceremony on Monday, where he spoke of the need to remember every victim as “extraordinary.”
“We have to resist becoming numb to the sorrow,” Biden said. “We have to resist viewing each life as a statistic or a blur or, on the news. We must do so to honor the dead. But, equally important, to care for the living.”
In the hours that followed, Fox News’ prime-time hosts also discussed the pandemic. But Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham did not reference its heartbreaking death toll a single time. Instead, they reiterated many of the same bogus talking points they used for the last year, which helped generate that massive body count.
Fox spent 2020 recklessly minimizing the danger posed by the pandemic. Led by its prime-time team, the network denounced social distancing measures, face masks, and the public health officials who supported them, championed purported miracle cures that didn’t work, and propped up kooks and charlatans, all in service of then-President Donald Trump’s political standing. Their coverage influenced Fox’s audience -- but the impact was much greater than that. The Fox-obsessed Trump altered federal pandemic policy to align with the network’s programming, even hiring regular guest radiologist Scott Atlas to help lead the White House coronavirus task force. The results were catastrophic.
“We have to resist becoming numb to the sorrow,” Biden said. “We have to resist viewing each life as a statistic or a blur or, on the news. We must do so to honor the dead. But, equally important, to care for the living.”
In the hours that followed, Fox News’ prime-time hosts also discussed the pandemic. But Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham did not reference its heartbreaking death toll a single time. Instead, they reiterated many of the same bogus talking points they used for the last year, which helped generate that massive body count.
Fox spent 2020 recklessly minimizing the danger posed by the pandemic. Led by its prime-time team, the network denounced social distancing measures, face masks, and the public health officials who supported them, championed purported miracle cures that didn’t work, and propped up kooks and charlatans, all in service of then-President Donald Trump’s political standing. Their coverage influenced Fox’s audience -- but the impact was much greater than that. The Fox-obsessed Trump altered federal pandemic policy to align with the network’s programming, even hiring regular guest radiologist Scott Atlas to help lead the White House coronavirus task force. The results were catastrophic.
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Boggles the mind... 
