Post AdAH1A7GNsJYceu2Sm by IPEdmonton@mstdn.ca
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(DIR) Post #Ad8I9dywwFaVCkhcm0 by rchusid@med-mastodon.com
2023-12-24T11:15:46Z
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Despite the title, the information presented here shows that the real villian who is responsible for Covid continuing to spread these days is Joe Biden.#COVID https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/how-the-press-manufactured-consent
(DIR) Post #AdAGRkvg2JoeN5bIA4 by noyes@mastodon.online
2023-12-25T10:06:02Z
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@rchusidJoe Biden, apex spreader.@SuperTwaddle
(DIR) Post #AdAH1A7GNsJYceu2Sm by IPEdmonton@mstdn.ca
2023-12-25T10:12:26Z
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@rchusid if it were really all the US president’s doing, things would be just fine in other countries than the US (they’re not)
(DIR) Post #AdAReOgv7wGQf5vdUu by rchusid@med-mastodon.com
2023-12-25T12:11:36Z
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@IPEdmonton The US has done among the worse and similar mistakes in other countries does not excuse his actions to intentionally allow Covid to spread out of control for political reasons and to please his corporate donors
(DIR) Post #AdARppNGGEoWbRBRmy by IPEdmonton@mstdn.ca
2023-12-25T12:13:39Z
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@rchusid no it doesn’t. But my point was that the real problem is bigger than any one country. Even that one.
(DIR) Post #AdATYGqVaCDeV6cU2y by simon_lucy@mastodon.social
2023-12-25T12:32:53Z
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@rchusid Simple statements about COVID or any public health issue are useless.
(DIR) Post #AdAX062beFyQxdEpw8 by rchusid@med-mastodon.com
2023-12-25T13:11:33Z
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@IPEdmonton But this particular article is largely on the bad actions of the Biden administration, not other countries.As we are now in a primary campaign in the United States (despite attempts by the Democrats to prevent one) reviews of Biden's record are especially relevant now.
(DIR) Post #AdAXyVKqjYmQmhZmoC by IPEdmonton@mstdn.ca
2023-12-25T13:22:26Z
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@rchusid This article is about the bad actions of the current US government and not others BECAUSE it's written by Americans, who don't tend to look at the big picture about how these exact same things are happening well beyond their country's borders, and not because it wouldn't have been better/more complete if they had done so. My point is that if you really want to understand the source of our current plight, you won't find it by looking at the media OR the government of ANY one country.
(DIR) Post #AdB3zXTjRp78FqGgKW by rchusid@med-mastodon.com
2023-12-25T19:21:13Z
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@IPEdmonton You still learn a lot by looking at the mistakes in the US--which are very similar to the mistakes in other countries with similar government/business interests. The US, Canada, and the UK (among other countries) have made comparable mistakes, but it is necessary to look at each individually to see the specifics.
(DIR) Post #AdB9yTi6ZVcW0Frtei by IPEdmonton@mstdn.ca
2023-12-25T20:28:13Z
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@rchusid I don't disagree with this? But there's a difference between, as a journalist, positioning your article as "this is going to be a deep-dive into the US response specifically" and simply never mentioning that things are similar in other countries (and NOT JUST ANGLOPHONE countries) with an implication that that might be relevant to understanding the bigger picture (given that the article presumes to be attempting to understand what went wrong with the COVID response).
(DIR) Post #AdBApJyhUFR9AOpPLU by IPEdmonton@mstdn.ca
2023-12-25T20:31:10Z
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@rchusid I read news in four languages (and from many different countries) every day, and I swear to you, the way American journalists position their critiques of the response to the COVID pandemic is entirely unique (and not in a good way).
(DIR) Post #AdBApKooMV7Xm1D1ZQ by rchusid@med-mastodon.com
2023-12-25T20:37:47Z
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@IPEdmonton I bet the same could also be said re coverage on many other issues other than Covid
(DIR) Post #AdBB2gLLe1XIIPnBbM by IPEdmonton@mstdn.ca
2023-12-25T20:40:09Z
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@rchusid Yes. And sometimes it's appropriate, like if it's something GENUINELY US-specific (such as the gun problem or problems that have at its root the particular structure of the US government with respect to things like the primary system or gerrymandering). But there are a lot of other global things that get treated as uniquely American by US journalists, when they simply aren't.
(DIR) Post #AdBOEI2H90Zxmojjge by rchusid@med-mastodon.com
2023-12-25T23:07:59Z
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@IPEdmonton In the case of governmental responses to Covid, it is both an international story and story for each country. Detailing the mistakes by Trump, and then the harm done by Biden, are stories which the US press is more likely to pick up. The recent investigations in the UK show comparable stories, but the UK press is in better position to document the details.
(DIR) Post #AdBVc41vZGO8ygrDYO by IPEdmonton@mstdn.ca
2023-12-26T00:30:42Z
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@rchusid Yes. But like I said earlier, there's a difference between a journalist positioning their piece as a deep-dive into the US response specifically and treating the US like an island surrounded by nothing. And if the ostensible goal of the piece is to understand what went wrong with the COVID response (rather than something that's genuinely specifically American without any sort of analogue in other places), they're shooting themselves in the foot not to go over that.