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Re: WHO scientists: NYT misquoted us to fit a prescribed narrative

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Post by S_A_P »

Seeing a lot of evidence of late that NYT Journalists arent playing fairly. The Greenwald article which despite its problems points out bad faith on the part of Taylor Lorenz(I think that is her name) and now we have WHO scientists claiming that Javier C. Hernández and James Gorman have bent the truth. I wouldnt be as bothered by this if it were possible to call out bad journalism without being dismissed as a "fake news-er".

What news organizations can we really trust now?

Re: WHO scientists: NYT misquoted us to fit a prescribed narrative

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Post by themgt »

It's worth noting the original tweet is from Peter Daszak, who has been president of EcoHealth Alliance which has for 15 years worked with the Wuhan Institute of Virology studying bat coronaviruses[1][2][3]. He's been on record many times at least since February 2020 saying the ideas of lab break were "crackpot theories that need to be addressed" else they might harm our cooperation with China.[4]

At the very least that seems like a conflict of interest and perhaps the WHO should be sending investigators to China without longstanding professional ties to the lab whose name they aim to clear, who weren't already on record with their conclusions a year before they were sent to investigate their colleagues.

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-administration-coronaviru...

[2] https://www.ecohealthalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11...

[3] https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/j....

[4] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/20/coronavirus-ch...

Re: WHO scientists: NYT misquoted us to fit a prescribed narrative

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Post by ahepp »

S_A_P wrote: post #4

Seeing a lot of evidence of late that NYT Journalists arent playing fairly. The Greenwald article which despite its problems points out bad faith on the part of Taylor Lorenz(I think that is her name) and now we have WHO scientists claiming that Javier C. Hernández and James Gorman have bent the truth. I wouldnt be as bothered by this if it were possible to call out bad journalism without being dismissed as a "fake n…

Do you have a link to the Greenwald article in question? It sounds interesting.

Re: WHO scientists: NYT misquoted us to fit a prescribed narrative

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Post by lobotryas »

S_A_P wrote: post #4

Seeing a lot of evidence of late that NYT Journalists arent playing fairly. The Greenwald article which despite its problems points out bad faith on the part of Taylor Lorenz(I think that is her name) and now we have WHO scientists claiming that Javier C. Hernández and James Gorman have bent the truth. I wouldnt be as bothered by this if it were possible to call out bad journalism without being dismissed as a "fake n…

None by themselves. Every news source has an agenda; no exceptions. That’s like asking: what’s one food I can eat forever and stay healthy? Our only recourse is to consume a varied diet of news sources.

One tool we do have now is the ability to subscribe to youtubers and similar people who try to make a living from telling you about the news. The benefit here is that you have them search through news for you and then give you a summary or analysis.

Obviously I won’t mention names because someone will immediate chime in to start an argument. You’ll have to do your own digging.

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