The MSM wants to be taken seriously. They hated when Trump called them out for being fake news. But they are all about partisan coverage and this story proves the point. When Trump and Mike Pompeo told everyone that the COVID virus was likely leaked from a lab in China, the MSM immediately acted like the president was crazy, writing off the report as a conspiracy theory. But in doing so, they gave China cover because they never checked to see if what Trump said was true, they just assumed. So they lied to the public, and now that Biden is looking into the MSM is having to reverse gears, some even admitting they were wrong.
“Journalists continued to acknowledge Sunday that the media’s longstanding dismissal of the Wuhan “lab-leak” theory was in part due to Republicans pitching it.
Once widely cast aside as a racist “conspiracy theory” and “fringe” nonsense, the possibility that the coronavirus accidentally leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology has gained increasing credence in recent weeks. The saga has led to yet another reckoning for mainstream media journalists about groupthink and bias in the industry. Faced with criticism that they blasted the theory last year for political reasons, some reporters have admitted its Republican origins with figures like Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., former President Donald Trump, and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, played into why they disparaged it.
ABC News Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl suggested on ABC’s “This Week” Sunday that figures like Trump and Pompeo were not taken seriously by members of the media, saying “now serious people are saying it needs a serious inquiry.
“Yes, I think a lot of people have egg on their face,” Karl said. “This was an idea that was first put forward by Mike Pompeo, secretary of state, Donald Trump, and look some things may be true even if Donald Trump said them. Because Trump was saying so much else, that was just out of control, and because he was, you know, making a frankly racist appeal talking about Kung Flu, and the China virus, he said flatly this came from that lab, and it was widely dismissed … but now serious people are saying it needs a serious inquiry.”
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“Some things may be true even if Donald Trump said them” – ABC’s @JonKarl re origin of COVID-19 pandemic. #ThisWeek pic.twitter.com/voC1ISBv4X
— Brent Baker (@BrentHBaker) May 30, 2021
This should never have happened. Reporters should not be shooting off the hip and saying whatever they want. The MSM should have broached the subject objectively and reported about the leak without tarnishing it with their bias. But Dems can’t do that. Look at Rep Maxine Waters, she constantly talked about impeaching 45 regardless of what was going on. She demonized the president just as many other Dems did almost daily and she is supposed to be representing Americans…