“When all of our sources for medical information have an agenda to spin us, yeah, you wind up with a badly misinformed population, including on the left,” the comedian lamented. “Stories of increasing COVID-19 cases outnumber stories of decreasing cases by a factor of 5.5 even during periods when new cases are declining.”īetter safe than sorry, right? Well, no, and Maher perfectly explained why. major media is notable even in areas with positive scientific developments including school re-openings and vaccine trials,” the study concludes. Researchers found that a whopping 91 percent of stories in US media outlets were negative, compared to 54 percent of non-American outlets and 65 percent of academic scientific articles.
“Over the past year, the COVID pandemic has prompted the medical establishment, the media, and the government to take a scared straight approach to getting the public to comply with their recommendations.”Īs if he’s been following the reporting of FEE’s own Jon Miltimore, the comedian cited research from Dartmouth researchers that surveyed US media coverage and concluded it was disproportionately negative, even relative to the inherently negative nature of pandemic coverage. “Don’t spin me when it comes to my health,” Maher said. He called out the deceptive rhetoric employed by media outlets and public health officials alike who, to get the masses to do what they think best, have exaggerated and distorted the facts of this pandemic. Is liberal comedian and HBO host Bill Maher a closet libertarian? It may seem unlikely, but at the very least, Maher made the case against COVID-19 alarmism well in an epic Friday monologue.
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