Building a phony case for Trump’s next impeachment trial, liberal Journalism professors, led by Columbia University Journalism Prof. Todd Gitlin demanded that Fox News Chariman Rupert Murdoch and his son Lachlan Murdock admonish their hosts for not speaking with “scientific” precision about the coronavirus AKA CoV-2 or Covid-19 infectious disease crisis. Gitlin never complained about the New York Times false reporting for four years about the Russian hoax, not any of the underhanded ways Democrats tried to unseat an elected president. Yet now that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) called for a Sept. 11-like commission to investigate the coronavirus outbreak, the anti-Trump journalism community speaks out. The same people accusing Trump of Russian collusion, committing treason for firing former FBI Director James Comey June 9, 2017, now speak out.
Gitlin says Fox News ignores “scientific facts,” knowing that many scientists disagree about many aspects of the coronavirus epidemic, including how it started, why is spread so fast in the United States, the federal government’s response and what avante garde treatments are available. Because of Fox News’ superior ratings over rival cable networks CNN and MSNBC and broadcast networks CBS, NBC and ABC, Gitlin takes a shot. All broadcast news outlets together with their print counterparts in the New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times, demands science only apply to Fox News. No, none the anti-Trump networks need “science” to smear the president and his administration whatever way they choose. Now Schiff wants to accuse Trump of grossly mismanaging the government’s response to the crisis, calling for more hearings and investigations.
Gitlin and his colleagues at Columbia University or in the anti-Trump press wanted “science” to prevail when former FBI Director James Comey and his FBI associates lied and presented phony probable cause to obtain wiretaps for Trump and his 2016 presidential campaign. No one at Columbia, the cable news outlets, print journalism or network TV questioned Comey’s illegal counterintelligence investigation into Trump and his campaign. No, Gitlin now alleges Fox News committed “false statements downplaying the prevalence of the COVID-19 and its harms . . ..” insisting Trump deliberately downplayed the virus. Plenty of people, Democrats and Republicans, didn’t take it seriously because China minimized the epidemic, telling the world everything was under control. When cases popped up around the U.S., it took time for anyone to see the growing tsunami.
Gitlin, Schiff and others pretend like hidsight-is-20/20, pointing fingers at Trump purely for political reasons. “Casual recommendations of untested drugs, false assessments of the value of measures urged upon the public by their elected political leadership and public health authorities,” Gitlin wrote, displaying for all to see how politics corrupts today’s journalism. Trump didn’t recommend any treatment, he shared with the public promising treatments from other countries, not yet under U.S. If you listened to Gitlin, Trump acted like a snake oil salesman, selling unproven treatments to the public. Gitlin accused Fox News of using unqualified experts to disseminate information on the coronavirus epidemic. He mentions nothing of CNN, MSNBC and the major networks, finding any medical expert, now matter how flimsy their credentials, to hazard opinions.
Gitlin leads the charge against Trump on coronvirus, much like 50-year-old anti-Trump hack Yale Psychiatrist. Dr. Bandy Lee disgraced herself and her profession insisting Trump was a dangerous “malignant narcissist,” threatening civilization as we know it. Gitlin disgraces academic journalism, letting his political bias against Trump influence his public statements. “For a long time now I’ve been in myriad of conversations about Fox News,” Gitlin admits, knowing that he has nothing but disdain for anyone without a progressive Democrat agenda. “But in the face of the pandemic, the direct public health consequences loomed huge—a direct assault no only on decent journalism but on public health,” Gitlin said. Gitlin assaults his journalism field using his position to advance his political agenda. Everything Gitlin says about Fox News, all the cable news outlets and broadcast networks did the same thing.
Publishing Gitlin’s outrageous distortions is yet another attempt by the fake news media to build a credible case against Trump’s handling of the coronavirus crisis. Partisan hacks like Gitlin don’t like the fact that Trump’s approval ratings for the CoV-2 crisis and presidency have done nothing but go up. “The misinformation that reaches the Fox New audience is a danger to public health,” Gitlin insisted, knowing that Fox News does every bit as good covering the coronavirus crisis as any other broadcast news network. “Inexcusably, Fox News violated elementary cannons of journalism,” said Gitlin in his three-page diatribe. Gitline can’t see how his hatred toward Trump and Fox News impairs his judgment, allowing his undeniable prejudice against conservatives to influence his thinking. Gitltin’s anti-Trump bias is unmistakable. Whether he conspires with the Democrat National Committee is anyone’s guess.
