In a surprising criticism of the left versus right for eachhis paradigm, fellow leftist Bill Maher openly criticized the failure of the left in general to have a grasp on the alleged pandemic. Last month, Maher mocked how wrong the left is an understanding some basics about the novel coronavirus.
He stated that, though the left think of themselves as fact-based and following the science, in contradiction to what they perceive the right is doing by not being fact-based and not following the science, the left is actually more wrong than the right about the threat the novel coronavirus poses. He even congratulated some Republican governors, like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as being a lot better this and handling the novel coronavirus then the Democratic governor of New York.
Maher also criticized the media as being responsible. Most of the media is leftist media, and this is what people on the left will consume further information and their understanding of what is going on. He referred to the media as promoting panic born just to boost ratings, which is what a Project Veritas video has recently shown about a CNN technical director admitting themselves.
The more they can the more they can get you to stay inside and watch their panic porn, the higher the ratings.
When all of our sources for medical information have an agenda to spin us, yeah you wind up with a badly misinformed population - including on the left
Democrats are also more likely to exaggerate COVID's toll on young people and to believe that children account for a meaningful share of deaths
Democrats did much worse than Republicans in getting the right answer to the fundamental question: what are the chances that someone who gets COVID will need to be hospitalized
The New York Times also covered this failure of mainstream media to give an accurate representation of the threat. IN March, they published Bad News Biasl which looked at an economics professor at Dartmouth College, Bruce Sacerdote, and the data analyzed about how the US covers the issue compared to the international media.
The result was that the US media tended to be biased towards being almost completely focused on the negatives and promoting a dark picture. They serve to amplify a perception of the threat and a risk to everyone's lives.
The international media had about a 50-50 split between positive and negative news surrounding covid-19 coverage. While local and regional US news was only slightly higher, US national news which is what is most watched by most Americans who still consume the legacy media, had to fear porn elevated to 90% of their coverage.
If it bleeds it leads. That's the same. That's what they focused on to make sure the rating stayed up. Selling the fear and making people afraid so they continually tuned in to stay misinformed while believing they were being informed. This kept them coming back for more and more. They believe there was a real threat, and that they needed to be aware of that threat, so they just kept tuning in to the fear porn which kept making them believe in the threat and wanting to know more. Was he getting better, was getting worse, what should they do, what do the experts say, and then they just obey whatever they're told because the threat was so real to them.