Progressive? There are progressive sources, but they are not mainstream media. The NYT and WAPO are slightly left of center mainstream, not much different from right center Forbes.
I am not belittling anyone. Fox reports the Lab leak theory as fact. Most of the rest of the MSM reports the natural origin theory as most likely.
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You most certainly belittled Mn. Because he has a different perspective than you on some hot topics you’ve already dismissed as being settled science because that’s what your news outlets of choice have told you are facts. Which you just decried regarding Fox News and their consumers.
I do not watch Fox News so I googled “Fox News Lab Leak Theory” and didn’t find a single hit in the first page of results where Fox News reported the lab leak theory as fact. Only articles where the possibility was broached and some level of “experts” and their research were cited.
You’ve consistently, over time, made this same generic, black and white claim that this over here is bad and this over here is good. But it’s just a feeling based on your own inherent biases, it really isn’t rooted in reality. Yes there are places that rate the news programs by factual information but then again that’s not immune from partisan bias, either. And it’s entirely dependent on sample size and who is choosing the sample itself.
The complete fingers-in-their-ears denial of even discussing the lab leak hypothesis from Fauci, Big Pharma, and the left-leaning MSM literally drove demand for said discussion from those whose spidey senses went off as a result. Fox (among others) appear to have chosen to supply it to meet the demand. The same exact thing happened with the fervent, exaggerated, and wholly premature vaccine claims/mandates.
Now that the dust has settled, it seems there were plenty of legit concerns about all manner of pandemic protocol, vaccine safety, mandate efficacy, the role of Big Pharma in policy making in the midst of record profits, blackballing alternative treatments, etc. So as usual, the truth lies somewhere in the middle, and not with the loudest or whoever controls most of the media.
Anytime things are pushed that hard and legitimate experts who want to have a different discussion are being silenced and blackballed, it raises concerns about the validity of the information (and mandates) that are being shoved down everyone’s throats from a very one-sided perspective. It’s also alarming when Big Tech and the government and other officials have the ability to memory hole all the shit that was wrong. Luckily some people are prescient enough to track some of this stuff, but sadly by the time they can say “Hey look at this stuff” the public’s attention has been shifted elsewhere. Like, say, Ukraine.
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