It’s hilarious to watch TV journalists indignant and frustrated that ordinary people are showing an increasing lack of concern about the coronavirus spreading when the media themselves are mostly to blame.
We watched in real time as they encouraged massive protests and excused violent rioting for months. Oh, but now President Trump is having campaign rallies! Why aren’t people staying home?! Where are their masks?! Why aren’t they listening to science?!
Millions of people taking to the streets to protest the ever so rare police killing of an unarmed black man? What virus?
A few thousand voters going to a Trump rally? People are dying!
CNN on Monday aired one of those condescending segments during which a correspondent talks to several Trump supporters attending a rally and lectures them about COVID-19.
“You know the virus can be spread with people who don’t have symptoms as well, right?” The reporter said to one woman.
Wow, he’s so smart and dreamy! He knows the science.
(Strangely thereafter, when one woman rightfully stated that transmission of the virus is lowest in open air and that ultraviolet rays from the sun have proven to deactivate it, the reporter told her that was untrue. Fact check: She is right, and he is wrong.)
If the media cared nothing of scores, hundreds, and even thousands of people clustered outside for protests for weeks on end, why are they suddenly shaken to their core over Trump hosting campaign rallies?
The answer is simple. The racial rioting was seen as politically good for Democrats and bad for Trump. In contrast, the president’s rallies motivate his own supporters.
The media are in favor of the former and hate the latter.
This isn’t about the virus. It’s about politics.
