Media outlets were quick to pounce when Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. declared that cell phones should be banned in schools in part because of “electromagnetic radiation.” Instead of focusing on the merits of a cell phone ban, outlets chose not to highlight a real issue in public schools and instead continued their campaign to frame the HHS secretary as a conspiratorial idiot who “frequently” spreads misinformation.
Lean into the crazy, ignore the facts. So much for transparency and real journalistic integrity. NBC News, Newsweek, and other outlets quickly proclaimed that the “bulk” of research on cell phones presents no proof that they either cause cancer or alter DNA. But these outlets brushed over the fact that cell phones, and social media, are assisting in the degradation and destruction of American youths.
