Thing is, they still didn't learn the lesson.
The news media and Faux News are different. The news media depends on facts. Faux News is just dogma. The reason news media attack Trump is because he lies all the time. And his lies are dangerous. Faux News and Trump are peas from the same pod.
There's no equivalence between news media and Faux News. If you want to know about coronavirus, read or watch the News Media. If you want to go to Mardi Gras and die, watch Faux and listen to Trump.
If you still don't get it, you are doomed.
"Pastor Landon Spradlin wasn't worried about coronavirus when we went to New Orleans to preach during Mardi Gras. A month later he was dead.
"He loved to laugh. He loved to play guitar. He played guitar even when he wasn't supposed to," says Jesse Spradlin of her father, Landon....
On the 13th of March Pastor Spradlin shared on Facebook a misleading post comparing swine flu and coronavirus deaths.
It suggested that Barack Obama and Donald Trump respectively had been treated very differently by the media and that it was a politically motivated ploy to harm President Trump.
Earlier the very same day, the president himself had insinuated something very similar at a news conference....
Pastor Spradlin's son, Landon Isaac, 32, told me that he and his father had talked and agreed about what they felt was an irrational frenzy and fear mongering about the virus, perhaps because it was an election year.
"I want to say outright though, dad didn't think it was a hoax, he knew it was a real virus," says Landon Isaac.
"But he did put up that post because he was frustrated that the media was propagating fear as the main mode of communication," he told me....
She does think that mixed signals and, as she sees it, an inability to trust the media contributed to confusion about the virus.
"I was frustrated with the way that the media was very agenda driven - and it's on both sides. I feel like the coronavirus issue turned into something that was 'party against party' instead of one nation under God," she says.
Jesse said that the longstanding polarisation of the American media made it hard to know what to believe and what is political hype...."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52157824
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