Fox News Killing Their Viewers

This country's corporate news outlets run their machines on hyperbole and fear. Why would this be any different?

^ If it Bleeds, it Leads....

This has gone on since Cuneiform.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/02/us/coronavirus-social-distancing.html

I'd like to see a map of the hotspots overlaid on that map. I'm guessing we'd see full coverage.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html

^^^^^

Damn Yankees.

>>>>This country's corporate news outlets run their machines on hyperbole and fear.

Yep.   The OP presents a chicken and egg situation.  A lot of people who are already distrustful of mainstream media are drawn to Fox News, which in turn profits from and reinforces those pre-existing beliefs.   Even if Fox News didn't exist, you would still have a healthy population of naysayers who believe everything is overblown and the product of some sinister conspiracy.

what is that map, liddle? at&t's cell coverage?

Those images didn't quite register with each other, but this composite gets the idea across.

some zoners think this is all fear mongering.

Covidiots abroad....

that first map was created using cell phone tracking.

Apparently big brother tracks everybody's cell phone?

Fox is the one network not cutting away early from the Presidents daily briefings.

So there's that.  Additionally, it's amazing that at a time like this people like you persist in your juvenile beliefs.  But then, bird has to fly.

https://twitter.com/TheDailyShow/status/1245372798178152454

Holy shit, Thom....Trump himself was leading the Birther movement. Was his lack of support for the sitting US POTUS alright because there wasn't a crisis?

He did that purely for political points. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/01/us/politics/hannity-limbaugh-trump-coronavirus.html

I don't watch any of them anymore but at least Fox comes from an obvious vantage point of a one-sided ideological position. I don't agree with most of it but it's not concealed.

CNN actually projects itself as a reputable new source and in some respects, is equally as dangerous, maybe more. 

Vapid filth for the American sheeple.

https://vivalazone.org/other-stuff/fireside-chat-donald-j-trump-president-united-states

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/31/fireside-chat-trump-should-deliver

in dear leader's own words:

The coronavirus is very much under control in the USA.

We have it totally under control.

I’m not concerned at all.

It’s one person coming in from China.

We pretty much shut it down.

It will all work out well.

We’re in great shape.

Doesn’t spread widely at all in the United States because of the early actions that myself and my administration took.

There’s a chance it won’t spread.

It’s something that we have tremendous control over.

Looks like by April, you know, in theory, when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away.

One day it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.

Just stay calm.

It will go away.

The Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus.

This is their new hoax.

Whatever happens, we’re totally prepared.

Totally ready.

We’re rated number one for being prepared.

We are so prepared like we never have been prepared.

Taking early intense action, we have seen dramatically fewer cases of the virus in the United States.

We’re very much ahead of everything.

This is a flu.

I didn’t know people died from the flu.

Here, we’re talking about a much smaller range.

It is very mild.

Some people will have this at a very light level.

Some of them go to work.

We have very little problem in this country.

We only have five people.

We only have 11 cases.

Out of billions of people, 15 people.

They’re getting better, and soon they’re all going to be better, hopefully.

We’re going very substantially down, not up.

^you forgot this little nugget...

He calls all the governors. I tell him, I’m a different type of person. I say Mike, don’t call the governor of Washington. You’re wasting your time with him. Don’t call the woman in Michigan. It doesn’t make any difference what happens.

I like this stuff.

I really get it.

Maybe I have a natural ability.

We think it’s going to have a very good ending.

We’re going to win faster than people think.

I hope.

ah, good point, lumber.

Maybe that nasty woman from Michigan could do him a favor, though.

She toned it waaay down. I think word got back that she was only helping trump her numbers crashed.  Now she is very 'thankful and grateful' at the response and effort from the feds...

Too little too late im afraid

https://twitter.com/SteveSchmidtSES/status/1245042056302489603

>>>   her numbers crashed

what are you talking about?

this?

https://www.wlns.com/news/michigan/skubick-new-poll-shows-whitmer-approval-jumps-during-covid-19-pandemic/

Governor’s Job Rating

(1) Oct 42% Positive

(2) Oct 34% Negative

(3) Now: 60% Positive

(4) Now: 22% Negative

>She toned it waaay down. I think word got back that she was only helping trump her numbers crashed.  Now she is very 'thankful and grateful' at the response and effort from the feds<

No, she realized that the feds wouldn't help until she kissed Trump's ass

>>>   her numbers crashed

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/490825-governors-win-high-marks-for-coronavirus-response-outpacing-trump

Governors win high marks for coronavirus response, outpacing Trump

By Reid Wilson - 04/02/20 12:41 PM EDT

...

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) has seen her job approval rating jump to 60 percent, according to a Marketing Resource Group poll, and just 22 percent disapprove. Whitmer's approval rating is 15 points higher than Trump's in the battleground state; Trump dismissively referred to "that woman from Michigan" after Whitmer complained about the lack of support from the federal government.

...

In related news, the Bundy Bunch has now pledged to defend Idahoans' right to gather despite the governor's stay at home order:

https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/04/ammon-bundy-who-led-malhe...

Thom playing with blocks again

We'll save the Bundy folks a few pouches.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/04/02/coronavirus-fema-seeks-100-000-body-bags-pentagon-covid-19/5111412002/

FEMA seeks 100,000 body bags from Pentagon as coronavirus pandemic worsens

Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY

Updated 1:52 p.m. ET April 2, 2020

WASHINGTON – The Federal Emergency Management Agency asked the Pentagon for 100,000 body bags, a chilling request as the COVID-19 pandemic spirals.

Known as mortuary pouches, the heavy-duty zippered bags are typically used in the military to contain the remains of troops killed in combat. Wednesday, more than 1,000 people died of the coronavirus in the USA, raising the death toll over 5,000. A week ago, the total was less than 1,300. 

"The Department of Defense and the Defense Logistics Agency have a long-standing arrangement with FEMA to procure key commodities from DLA's industrial partners during crisis response operations,” Air Force Lt. Col. Michael Andrews, a Pentagon spokesman, said in a statement Thursday. “DLA is currently responding to FEMA's prudent planning efforts for 100,000 pouches to address mortuary contingencies on behalf of state health agencies."

Let the Bundys gather, I say!  Join with the church, all one god faith!  

To bad people can't gather outside of Fox News in Manhattan and protest. Like a March on Washington or something. 

Maybe we can't legally do anything. Like not being able to indict a sitting president and shit. 

Now there's this from the scum of the earth Repugnants>>>>

https://www.democracynow.org/2020/4/2/headlines/top_coronavirus_expert_d...

Here's one of the highlights/lowlights of the article>>>>

The White House’s top medical expert on the coronavirus pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci, has reportedly been given a security detail after receiving death threats. Dr. Fauci has repeatedly contradicted Trump’s false claims about the pandemic and the timeline for any new treatments or a vaccine. He’s been pilloried in conservative media circles in language echoing President Trump. For example, a recent headline in the American Thinker referred to Fauci as a “Deep-State Hillary Clinton-loving stooge.”

Suffocate him with a MyPillow.

thom

I have made a personal commitment due to all the vitriol on the zone to not attack people and call them names (really attack their posts)

Your "people like  you". Comment Is truly amazing 

At the risk of being criticized or even ostracized can you give me your honest opinion on how well our government and those in charge of handling this emergency are performing since they were made aware of the risk and impact 

(without attacking  others (nor using revisionist "facts")

yes,  I feel that the leadership has been appalling and one for the history books

Any comments on the son in law now driving policy priorities and actions"

any comments on the nice diversion to start a war on drugs commitment when it is the lowest priority for our country right now 

At least the three stooges were funny!

“In the middle of the impeachment trial, on Jan. 26, Schumer demanded that the administration declare a public health emergency so that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention could access more funds.”

“A day later, 31 Senate Democrats signed a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar asking if “any additional resources or action by Congress are needed.”

“Senate Democrats point to 32 other warnings, requests and statements they made seeking action against the virus — all while the Senate impeachment trial was underway.”

“Sen. Ron Johnson (Wis.), the Republican chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, complained that administration officials refused to participate in a hearing where he received alarming forecasts about the virus.” Dana Milbank

And of course, there was Republican Senator Richard Burr, who sold off his stock after learning of the looming pandemic. 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/01/republicans-were-warn...

If the anti-Covfefe-19 virus war is anywhere near as effective as the war on drugs, we're really in trouble.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/04/02/grim-death-toll-projections-white-house-offered-monday-have-already-been-revised-upward/

If this virus has to kill people, let it be those that worship fox news and our idiot in chief.  And please, start at the top.

Fox has been slaughtering Americans since it's inception, churning brains into a fine puree

<<SAN PEDRO, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- An engineer deliberately ran a train off the tracks at high speed near the Port of Los Angeles in an attempt to crash into the USNS Mercy hospital ship, prosecutors say.

The Pacific Harbor Line train derailed Tuesday, running through the end of the track and crashing through barriers, finally coming to rest about 250 yards from the docked naval ship.

Federal prosecutors allege train engineer Eduardo Moreno, 44, of San Pedro intended to hit the ship, saying he thought it was "suspicious" and did not believe "the ship is what they say it's for.'"

The train crashed into a concrete barrier at the end of the track, smashed through a steel barrier and a chain-link fence, slid through one parking lot and then a second lot filled with gravel and hit a second chain-link fence. It came to rest after passing under a ramp leading to the Vincent Thomas Bridge. The train remained in that position Wednesday.

https://abc7.com/usns-mercy-coronavirus-train-crash-derailment/6069395/?...

This is what happens when rednecks and white trash win elections.  They are failures so used to failing that they're happy to take us all down.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/04/trump-fired-pandemic-response-jared-kushner-coronavirus.html

Jared Kushner is in charge.  

we are SO fucked.

>>This is what happens when rednecks and white trash win elections.

Post of the day.

^ so Jared Kushner is in charge.

of course.

we are SO fucked.

Yep. Buckle up kids, we're on our own. Stay safe and tell your family how much you love them. 

Why do I easily picture him as a henchman in the 3rd Reich. He's a Jew but I am almost certain he'd happily send his people off to the gas chambers if it benefited him and his family.  That's how truly awful that guy is. 

What's up next for America? Slide into "Handmaids Tale" dystopian land? With the amount of layoffs and pain I'm hearing from today; it doesn't seem too far off. 

Kushner and Oscar Health...what's up with THAT?!

Fox is the one network not cutting away early from the Presidents daily briefings.<<

What a fuckwit.  Other outlets have decided that Trump's bullshit does the public no good.  They still broadcast the people who  know WTF they're talking about.

Some zoners are stoked for free, empty  air flights, because this is just “hysteria”.

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1245852517474295809

Fuck the states, this is for FEDERAL use.

Glad to see ramble on and blue

rose on this thread. When a poster replied to "gentlemen "

it bummed me out

viva la feminine 

https://www.facebook.com/heathercoxrichardson/posts/2226468874163833?__t...

<<April 1, 2020 (Wednesday)

After a very long day of teaching on-line (which I find exhausting) and celebrating the new book’s publication date (woo hoo!) I fell deeply asleep on the couch early this evening and awoke hours later to read the news. In that quiet clarity of being newly rested in the middle of the night, reading the news felt very much like history research, when you are dropped into the sources and getting a sense of what the world looked like at a certain moment in time. 

If I were looking back at today from the vantage point of a hundred years from now, I would write that the government, whose systems for handling a crisis have been dismantled, is faltering badly as inexperienced officials are trying to respond to a pandemic by relying on the private sector.

Hardly a novel interpretation, but it really jumps out when you spend a couple of hours reading the day’s news all at once.

Here’s what I saw:

The news broke that the United States has been sending medical supplies to other countries while our own health care workers don’t have masks or PPE (personal protective equipment). Politico revealed that an administration official called counterparts in Thailand to ask for PPE only to be told by a confused official on the other end who said that the U.S. was shipping those very supplies to Thailand. One shipment had already arrived, and another was on its way. Vice President Mike Pence, who is in charge of the administration’s coronavirus task force, immediately halted the shipment. It appears that there has been no coordination between the administration and USAID, the United States Agency for International Development, so we have apparently been exporting the very supplies we need at home. 

This created a furor over the fact that we also sent 17.8 tons of medical supplies, including masks, gowns, gauze, and respirators to China in February, after the severity of our own impending crisis was already clear. The administration has said these supplies were “donated,” but I have not been able to track down by whom. 

Politico also broke the story that since March 12, Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner has been in charge of his own coronavirus response team to get the private sector on board to fight the crisis. Trump has been reluctant to activate the Defense Production Act, a law that enables the government to encourage manufacturers to produce vital equipment and protects them from losses when they do. Bizarrely, the Trump administration—like all others since the law went into effect in the 1950s—uses this act all the time to respond to natural disasters, to move supplies around during emergencies, and so on, but refuses to do so now. Instead, it appears Trump has tapped Kushner to coordinate with private industry. In that capacity, he and his outside experts—including a number from the consulting firm McKinsey—are acting as a sort of independent cell without government oversight and are overruling the teams already in place. 

We learned that the Obama administration tried five years ago to address what it perceived as a lack of ventilators in case of a pandemic, paying $13.8 million to a Pennsylvania manufacturer—a subsidiary of a huge Dutch appliance and technology corporation-- to create a cheap, easy ventilator to stockpile. The FDA cleared the device in September and the Department of Health and Human Services, which had provided the $13.8 million, ordered 10,000 of them for $3,280 each. Instead of providing those ventilators, the company instead hiked its prices and sold them overseas. Trump has declined to use the DPA to get the company to produce the ventilators it developed for the U.S. Instead, Kushner’s team is negotiating with it to build 43,000 more expensive hospital ventilators for the U.S.

Pence tried to suggest that the administration’s slow response was because China had been slow about admitting the full extent of the disease and that the Centers for Disease Control had initially mischaracterized the danger from it as low. (While China did try to quash information about the disease, the CDC was clear about it.) Pence continued: “I don’t believe the President has ever belittled the threat of the coronavirus.” (There is overwhelming evidence Trump did exactly this.) 

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has not wanted to take the responsibility for closing down his state and has been trying to get Trump to do it. But Trump doesn’t want to do it either. So the two of them have been trying to get the other to do it as the infection and death rates in Florida climb. Finally, today, DeSantis made the call, but he exempted churches, synagogues, and houses of worship from its provisions, calling them essential businesses. This will permit religious leaders like Rodney Howard-Browne to keep his megachurch open. On Monday, sheriff’s deputies arrested Howard-Browne for unlawful assembly and a violation of health emergency rules. 

Georgia Governor Brian Kemp has finally issued shelter-in-place order for Georgia, too, as the state reported 4,748 cases of Covid-19 and 56 deaths. He said a key change was the recent news that people could transmit the virus without showing symptoms, but of course that news is not recent; we have known it virtually since the beginning. 

DeSantis has another crisis on his hands, too. A cruise ship with infected passengers is sitting off the coast of Florida, and he doesn’t want it to dock in the state. Trump is not taking responsibility for that, either. So DeSantis has finally announced he will take off the ship the 49 people on it who hail from Florida… but not the others, including those from other countries, who continue to float on a ship with disease on it. This situation needs an immediate solution.

The federal government had a similar problem aboard the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt, an aircraft carrier where Covid-19 was spreading. Tired of waiting for his superiors to get his people to safety, the ship’s commander wrote a scathing letter claiming that keeping the sailors on the ship was “an unnecessary risk and breaks faith with those Sailors entrusted to our care.” After the letter was made public, Navy officials agreed to offload sailors to quarantine in Guam to keep the disease at bay.

Georgia Senator Kelly Loeffler, appointed by Kemp and married to the CEO of the company that owns the New York Stock Exchange, revealed more stock trades today that took place after she had attended a Senate briefing on the severity of the coming epidemic. She sold stock in retail stores and bought stock in a company that makes PPEs. She maintains she has done nothing wrong.

And Devin Nunes (R-CA), the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee and associate of indicted political operative Lev Parnas said on the Fox News Channel today he thought that closing schools was “way overkill” and that it was hurting the economy unnecessarily. California has more than 6,900 cases and at least 150 people there have died from it.

Finally, it appears that Trump will continue golfing despite the crisis. Although staying mum about who the “dignitary” they need to protect is, the Secret Service has signed a $45,000 contract to rent golf carts in Sterling, Virginia, where Trump has a golf course that remains open despite Virginia’s stay-at-home order. 

It’s important to note that any of these stories might have good explanations. Maybe shoring up USAID was worth losing our PPEs, or there’s a good reason not to use the DPA to get more ventilators from the company who contracted to produce them. But if so, we are not hearing those explanations. Instead, what jumps out at this hodge-podge of stories is the lack of organization and expertise, and the apparent every-man-for-himself attitude at the highest levels of government. 

That attitude sure doesn’t seem to be producing an effective response to the global pandemic that is threatening our lives.

it probably wasn't a great decision racket.

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/490892-aircraft-carrier-captain-to-be...

<<The captain of an aircraft carrier struggling with a coronavirus outbreak has been relieved from command after a letter he penned pleading for help leaked to the media.

“Today at my direction the commanding officer of the USS Theodore Roosevelt, Capt. Brett Crozier was relieved of command,” acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly announced Thursday at a Pentagon briefing.

>>>>Some zoners are stoked for free, empty  air flights,

Here was my flight on Tuesday from Loreto, BCS back to the States.  Wasn't stoked about coming back to this shit show.

Speaking of planes, chump's boy Robert Kraft takes patriots plane to china to resupply his chain of massage parlor strumpets. Decides to grab a few masks while there in a futile attempt at reconstructing his image.
Fail

>>futile attempt at reconstructing his image

Does anyone even talk about his incident at all?  I feel like his image took no substantial hit.

Billionaires get over a week of late-night monologue jokes fairly easily.