Correction, Please!
Liberal Media “Corrects” Truthful COVID Coverage at Urging of White House
Papers, please: Concerns about unvaccinated individuals spreading the new COVID Delta variant have led some places, such as New York City, to mandate COVID vaccines to enter public venues. (Photo credit: AP Images)
Item: In an e-mail newsletter transcript dated July 30, carrying the headline “White House blasts Covid coverage,” CNN’s Oliver Darcy reported that the White House “is frustrated with what it views as alarmist, and in some instances flat-out misleading, news coverage about the Delta variant.” Citing two anonymous “senior Biden administration officials,” Darcy said, “In some instances, poorly framed headlines and cable news chyrons wrongly suggested that vaccinated Americans are just as likely to spread the disease as unvaccinated Americans.” He said he was told by one Biden official that the “media’s coverage” is “hyperbolic and frankly irresponsible in a way that hardens vaccine hesitancy” and that “the biggest problem we have is unvaccinated people getting and spreading the virus.”
Following are examples of that coverage as amended to satisfy the White House:
Item: The New York Times published an online article on July 30 under the headline “C.D.C. Internal Report Calls Delta Variant as Contagious as Chickenpox,” and tweeted that article saying, “Breaking News: The Delta variant is as contagious as chickenpox and may be spread by vaccinated people as easily as the unvaccinated, an internal C.D.C. report said.”
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