Media Apologies for Their Horrible COVID Coverage.

[MrNiceGuy]

‘We Failed’: Danish Newspaper Apologizes For Its COVID Coverage​

Ekstra Bladet, one of Denmark’s largest newspapers, gleaned one of the most important lessons in journalism during the pandemic.

‘We Failed’: Danish Newspaper Apologizes For Its COVID Coverage

One of Denmark's largest newspapers has apologized for its journalistic failure during the pandemic by only publishing official government messages without questioning them.

fee.org

“For ALMOST two years, we - the press and the population - have been almost hypnotically preoccupied with the authorities' daily coronatal,” wrote Bladet journalist Brian Weichardt. “THE CONSTANT mental alertness has worn out tremendously on all of us. That is why we - the press - must also take stock of our own efforts. And we have failed.”

I hadn't seen this apology before, even though it's from last year. Great job, at least in retrospect, for this newspaper to recognize its failure. Would 'twere the American media followed suit.

 

[BlueTex]

‘We Failed’: Danish Newspaper Apologizes For Its COVID Coverage​

Ekstra Bladet, one of Denmark’s largest newspapers, gleaned one of the most important lessons in journalism during the pandemic.

‘We Failed’: Danish Newspaper Apologizes For Its COVID Coverage

One of Denmark's largest newspapers has apologized for its journalistic failure during the pandemic by only publishing official government messages without questioning them.

fee.org

I hadn't seen this apology before, even though it's from last year. Great job, at least in retrospect, for this newspaper to recognize its failure. Would 'twere the American media followed suit.

LMAO... A Danish tabloid apologizes!

Ekstra Bladet - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[SNOWFLAKE]

WOW, ONE publication apologizes for failed Covid info. And we needed THAT as an excuse to attack all media??

AND a story, as the OP admits, from LAST YEAR!! Talking about scouring the internet for that one rare gem.(sarc)

 

[j brown's body]

This is confusing.

If journalists were wrong to listen to the experts, who were they supposed to listen to? After all, the author gives no example of the experts either lying or presumably benefiting personally from what they said

 

[CaughtInThe]

LMAO... A Danish tabloid apologizes!

Ekstra Bladet - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Davin]

I hadn't seen this apology before, even though it's from last year. Great job, at least in retrospect, for this newspaper to recognize its failure. Would 'twere the American media followed suit.

Newspaper? It's a tabloid. Thank you for showing everyone you got DUPED. Keep riding that Fail Train.

 

[j brown's body]

Trump failed.

"Birx speaks to her struggle to get through to an administration unprepared for the pandemic and President Trump, who quickly chilled on her stark projections of the damage the virus could do.

“Any other president would have wanted to know just how bad things were going to get and what could be done to prevent the worst case,” Birx wrote of her early days on the task force in 2020. “Except, this wasn’t any other president or any other White House. This was President Trump and the Trump White House. I was standing on constantly shifting sand, among political players I didn’t know and a president who apparently liked his news served good and upbeat, or not at all.”


CDC, FDA, NIH workers did not report incidents of political interference, 'fearing retaliation,' government watchdog agency says
Birx levies critiques too against the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for its initial reaction to the illness as flu-like and lack of clear division of duties among agencies. Birx attributed some of this to CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield’s status as a “political appointee” in the Trump administration."

https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/26/health/birx-covid-book-silent-invasion/index.html

 

[PirateMk1]

This is confusing.

If journalists were wrong to listen to the experts, who were they supposed to listen to? After all, the author gives no example of the experts either lying or presumably benefiting personally from what they said

They should have questioned them. Its the lack of questioning that was the problem.

 

[j brown's body]

They should have questioned them. Its the lack of questioning that was the problem.

Trump kept them on a leash to the point that he took over the daily briefings.

"After Birx told CNN’s Dana Bash in August 2020 that the virus was “extraordinarily widespread,” Birx wrote, Trump called her and demanded the name of the person who booked the interview, saying “That’s it! Do you understand me? Never again! The virus is under control.”"

 

[MrNiceGuy]

Newspaper? It's a tabloid. Thank you for showing everyone you got DUPED. Keep riding that Fail Train.

Tabloids are newspapers. Newspapers were traditionally in two forms, broadsheets and tabloids.

What's the fail, other than yours in thinking a tabloid is not a newspaper?

 

[PirateMk1]

Trump kept them on a leash to the point that he took over the daily briefings.

"After Birx told CNN’s Dana Bash in August 2020 that the virus was “extraordinarily widespread,” Birx wrote, Trump called her and demanded the name of the person who booked the interview, saying “That’s it! Do you understand me? Never again! The virus is under control.”"

So the media was doing trumps bidding? Ok.

 

[j brown's body]

So the media was doing trumps bidding? Ok.

How so?

 

[JMB802]

‘We Failed’: Danish Newspaper Apologizes For Its COVID Coverage​

I think you still have time to fix your title. It should be:

A Danish tabloid apologizes for its Covid coverage.

Media is plural, not singular.

 

[SNOWFLAKE]

This is confusing.

If journalists were wrong to listen to the experts, who were they supposed to listen to? After all, the author gives no example of the experts either lying or presumably benefiting personally from what they said

tabloid journalism

 

[Davin]

Tabloids are newspapers. Newspapers were traditionally in two forms, broadsheets and tabloids.

What's the fail, other than yours in thinking a tabloid is not a newspaper?

When someone thinks Newspaper, they don't think Tabloid. If you can't see the difference between a MSM Newspaper and some rag that is less truthful than The Enquirer, no one can help you. What's next, you calling Infowars a news program?

 

[Fishking]

This is confusing.

If journalists were wrong to listen to the experts, who were they supposed to listen to? After all, the author gives no example of the experts either lying or presumably benefiting personally from what they said

False. They only listens to SOME experts. Any expert that was heterodox was shut own of the conversation. Well...the state-sanctioned experts were wrong on nearly everything.

 

[Utility Man]

The media.

Gov. Ron DeSantis sells ‘Don’t Fauci My Florida’ merch

Florida governor Ron DeSantis has released a new line of T-shirts and beer koozies in the leadup to the 2022 gubernatorial race taking aim at Dr. Anthony Fauci.

nypost.com

 

[BlueTex]

False. They only listens to SOME experts. Any expert that was heterodox was shut own of the conversation. Well...the state-sanctioned experts were wrong on nearly everything.

How are Ethiopian tabloids reacting to this development?

 

[Davin]

How are Ethiopian tabloids reacting to this development?

@Fishking is probably waiting to hear what North Korea has to say on the subject before he has approval to respond.

 

[Lovebug]

LMAO... A Danish tabloid apologizes!

Ekstra Bladet - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Lol, a sensationalistic newspaper apologizes.

 

[Helix]

I was wrong, too. I thought that disinformation professionals would be mad about the tanks today. Instead, it's COVID distractions. Someone should keep track of the patterns so that we can predict what we'll be seeing on any given day.

 

[MrNiceGuy]

They should have questioned them. Its the lack of questioning that was the problem.

It was also the lack of reporting the known truth, like when the media would not report correctly the impact of natural immunity, the overstatement of the efficacy of the vaccines, the false statements that the vaccines had been tested and were proven safe when they were not, and the denigration of treatments for covid at the word of the parties trying to sell the vaccine.

 

[Lovebug]

Trump failed.

"Birx speaks to her struggle to get through to an administration unprepared for the pandemic and President Trump, who quickly chilled on her stark projections of the damage the virus could do.

“Any other president would have wanted to know just how bad things were going to get and what could be done to prevent the worst case,” Birx wrote of her early days on the task force in 2020. “Except, this wasn’t any other president or any other White House. This was President Trump and the Trump White House. I was standing on constantly shifting sand, among political players I didn’t know and a president who apparently liked his news served good and upbeat, or not at all.”

CDC, FDA, NIH workers did not report incidents of political interference, 'fearing retaliation,' government watchdog agency says
Birx levies critiques too against the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for its initial reaction to the illness as flu-like and lack of clear division of duties among agencies. Birx attributed some of this to CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield’s status as a “political appointee” in the Trump administration."

https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/26/health/birx-covid-book-silent-invasion/index.html

I still remember he stoic face when Trump was braying about this and that.

 

[Lovebug]

‘We Failed’: Danish Newspaper Apologizes For Its COVID Coverage​

Ekstra Bladet, one of Denmark’s largest newspapers, gleaned one of the most important lessons in journalism during the pandemic.

‘We Failed’: Danish Newspaper Apologizes For Its COVID Coverage

One of Denmark's largest newspapers has apologized for its journalistic failure during the pandemic by only publishing official government messages without questioning them.

fee.org

I hadn't seen this apology before, even though it's from last year. Great job, at least in retrospect, for this newspaper to recognize its failure. Would 'twere the American media followed suit.

Thread/fail

 

[JMB802]

I still remember he stoic face when Trump was braying about this and that.

If I remember correctly, she was trying her damndest to look neutral during those Covid briefings. She often looked like she was sucking on a lemon.