From an Eric Boehlert e-mail (for fee) posting: The sympathetic, 2,000-word Journal piece focused on a minuscule portion of the workforce that has irrationally decided not to take a free, safe, and effective vaccine. Instead of presenting these actions as delusional, the press often frames the quitting as being principled or even heroic. (The “resistance” is “unwavering,” the New York Times announced.) The continued, hand-holding coverage — “brainwashing” is virtually never used — represents the latest example of the press helping to normalize irrational, nihilistic behavior by Trump followers. As we watch a parade of unreasonable people needlessly blow up their careers and walk away from good paying jobs with excellent benefits, the questions that linger are, should we care, and should this trend be breathlessly treated as Big News by the media? Should we care that a tiny percentage is embracing rabbit-hole conspiracies about a vaccine that nearly 200 million Americans have safely taken? Should we care that they’ve decided to believe non-stop lies to the point where they’ll likely be unemployable for months, and maybe years to come? Other news sources like MSNBC and CNN have been less sympathetic to these idiots. What a good editor does is block lies and propaganda and has often disappeared. Certainly that is the case of Murdoch publications and some media: The Washington Post last week shined a spotlight on journalists who have refused to get vaccinated and how their dismissals have created lots of media attention. But the article could barely find a dozen examples of that happening nationwide. Heck, even the FOX presenters have been vaccinated and then broadcast lies about COVID-19 vaccines ... deadly hypocrites. Bob Wilson
Whatever happened to 'my body my choice'? Oh wait, that only applies when it's a woman killing a baby to advance some pointless career. Talk about a death cult. lol You progressives and your selective outrage. lol
