From a nurse at Carolina Medical Center to the complainers:

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38. These are the words and images that should be on national TV every day.

Trump’s press conferences are useless, except for Dr. Fauci. The media should stop airing Trump’s propaganda campaign rallies masquerading as virus updates and instead interview Dr. Fauci separately and air those interviews to keep people informed. Then they should show images from hospitals around the country every single day. Some people just need to have repeated exposure to finally grasp an idea!

This situation reminds me somewhat of news coverage of the Vietnam War. The media did its duty then and brought images of the war and the suffering of us soldiers and Vietnamese allies into the living rooms of every person in America on the evening news. The media enabled people to see what was really happening versus the government line. The media also shed light on the fact that we were fighting a war we could not win for a reason we did not know or understand. Another useless war that Republicans and Democrats alike conducted over an ideology different from capitalism, which has its own problems.

I long for days of media that told the story instead of kowtowing to leaders for fear of offending them.