Tag: Mainstream Media

Cherry-picking COVID stats

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Cherry-picking COVID stats

Instead of honest and unbiased reporting, the mainstream media has twisted and distorted the numbers to scare the public into believing that their lives are at risk every time they leave their homes to shop, to go to work, or to exercise and that President Donald Trump is responsible for the more than 5 million reported cases of COVID-19 and the 175,000 deaths that have been attributed to it.

The distortions take many forms. At first, the media exclusively pushed death counts alone – guaranteed to stoke fear.

Once death counts began to fall, they lost their scare factor – but by then, testing had become more widespread. So the media began to publish positive test numbers and deaths — both daily and cumulative numbers — without context as to how many tests were conducted in a given day, the positivity rate of the tests, and how many of those who died had underlying conditions.

The Time has Come for the West to Sit Down, Shut up and Listen to the Rest of the World

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The Time has Come for the West to Sit Down, Shut up and Listen to the Rest of the World

The world desperately needs to hear from The Others. As it needs The Others to get involved, to be themselves, to stop white Western boys from murdering millions and millions of innocent people in all corners of the world, as they have been doing for several centuries without interruption, just as much as it needs the Others to erect new concepts, new ideologies, and new moral principles.

Another Opinion Columnist Pushing War With Iran Who Doesn’t Actually Exist

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Another Opinion Columnist Pushing War With Iran Who Doesn’t Actually Exist

The MEK is an Iranian exile group for which John Bolton, Rudy Giuliani, and other foreign policy luminaries have given paid speeches. Dems like Joe Lieberman and Howard Dean have also spoken on their behalf. But the group has American blood on its hands, has been accused of practicing forced sterilization, and their belief system has been described as a mixture of Marxism and Islamism. Its supporters claim they, and their front group the National Council of Resistance of Iran, are a sort of government-in-exile, despite nearly nonexistent support for the group within Iran. They also have waged a substantial disinformation campaign in the Western press, in particular targeting conservative media.

US Media Can’t Think How to Fight Fires Without $1-an-Hour Prison Labor

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

US Media Can’t Think How to Fight Fires Without $1-an-Hour Prison Labor

Trained firefighters being good enough to work for nearly nothing, but ineligible to get real jobs, would seem to represent an even bigger irony — and a more important story — than California having to spend a few million dollars extra to fight two crises at once. But covering the wildfire story that way would require seeing it through the eyes of inmates, not of a government whose main concern is the inconvenience of having to pay people when you’re used to getting their work almost for free. That’s an argument we’ve heard before, of course — but one would have hoped it wouldn’t still be guiding news coverage nearly 200 years later.