Media Credibility Crisis

I sure hope that at this point there is no one who trusts anything the media says.

Yup... they did that too...

I'll give him this much. . .he has guts walking around without any clear body armor or a bullet proof helmet.

Yep . . . and the same media that SHRIEKED Russia/Trump collusion while KNOWING that Hillary had commissioned the compilation of a Russian Disinformation dossier.

He might be called a nutcase for reasons unrelated to his views on vaccines.

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The lab theory could be true and RFK would still be a nutcase. This isn’t a zero sum game.

What's true is the media was caught lying. CNN, MSNBC, etc. have "Zero" credibility. Why should anyone listen to their opinion about RFK Jr.?

I will always take anything said by corporate media and right-wing quacks and grifters with a huge grain of salt.

Again, not a zero sum game.

Sure, but add left-wing quacks and grifters too because they aren't any better than the Right.

Fox lies. They have been sued for lying. CNN lies. Covid, Hunter's Laptop, etc. Who is not lying?

There is nothing wrong with calling a theory a theory before it is proven, because until it is proven beyond a shadow of a doubt it's NOT a fact!

It was sold as a "conspiracy theory" & "misinformation" by the media. The "theory" was blocked by Google & Twitter. Fauci withheld facts and lied about it. There is defiantly something wrong with that.

It's the job of the media to just repeat what everyone says without asserting their own opinions. This is the trouble with U.S. media is that they confuse what is news with what is opinion editorials.

Like I said it was a theory until it was proven, and being in China it was very difficult for medical examiners out side of China to get access to the evidence proving it to be true. As for misinformation there isn't a politician or government that isn't prone to spewing lies and conjectures!

They can also both be a conspiracy theory about a lab leak AND he can be a nutcase.

That's entirely possible.

Lab leak was proven to be likely true so no it is not possible. Where have you been?

Proven? Proven?!?

By who?

And what evidence?

Lots of sources. Here is one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhypiDfbGYA

That's pretty laughable.

But let's go to the source of his opinions: https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-funded-scientist-among-three-chinese-researchers-who-fell-ill-amid-early-covid-19-outbreak-3f919567

And it's the same information we had in February.

Which was Low Confidence. (low confidence has a specific meaning in intel work. It means roughly 'yeah, we think it might be that but we have no concrete evidence and our sources are super sketch')

I have to say, this is one of the most deceptively written paragraphs I've seen in a while:

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has assessed with moderate confidence that a lab leak was the most likely origin of the virus and the Energy Department came to a similar conclusion with low confidence. Four other U.S. intelligence agencies assess with low confidence that the virus arose naturally, while the Central Intelligence Agency has been agnostic.

The way they write it, it seems that the other Four don't think it was natural and implies they think it was a lab leak.

Except they don't.

They have Low Confidence it was Natural and No Confidence it was a lab leak.

So, yeah, still not Proven.

And given how secretive China is, and how they destroyed any evidence of it in the early days, we will never know.

Just because you want something to be true, doesn't make it true.

Your 'evidence' is the US intelligence agencies saying, "we can't prove it came from a lab, but we also can't prove it didn't come from a lab."

A lack of evidence is not evidence.

Was it a "conspiracy theory" or "misinformation?" No. It was valid to say that Covid may be man-made and may have come from a lab. Anyone that asked questions was canceled. That is the point. Media was pushing a narrative, not looking for the truth.

RFK Jr is a DINO