Once the president suggested people ingest cleaning products, even his fiercest supporters in media had to fact check him.
Fox news has been an extremely effective messaging arm of the Trump presidency. Some might say there would be no Trump presidency if not for Fox News. Rupert Murdoch's Fox News has been a steady propaganda arm through Trump’s many screwups and foibles. Serving as a kind of alternative universe to the "mainstream media," Fox has gotten the president out of numerous jams and happily explained away his most incendiary statements.
Propaganda and public health are a dangerous mix. The Spanish flu was made considerably worse because the American government tried to censor coverage of it. As Walter Shapiro, even though more than 195,000 Americans died in a single month in 1918, "President Woodrow Wilson, obsessed with a war in Europe that would end on November 11, made no public references to the disease. And states received no assistance from Washington, not even from the Food and Drug Administration.
It’s been a wild ride watching the president’s propaganda arm message coronavirus, a magical mystery journey of obfuscation and dysfunction and anti-science rhetoric, if you will. Our journey started with Fox News messaging the pandemic as just the flu, or perhaps, as the now-departedsaid, “Yet another attempt to impeach the president.” And Hannity and Ingraham accused the news media of whipping up “mass hysteria” and being “panic pushers.
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