We cats are pretty annoyed at how the news media allow the Trumpsters to frame the narrative on the coronavirus. Heck, we've been mad at how the news media frame narratives for a long time now. This is just the latest iteration.
Today, we've been triggered by a piece in Axios that sums up America's pandemicky situation and — thanks to the incompetence and mismanagement of Benedict Donald and nearly all of the GOP — how messed up we are. It was a pretty depressing read, leavened by just a few bright spots — mostly, about the progress some states (some states) are making to deal with the virus and try to rescue their crashed economies.
And then they close with this: "An existential threat — like war or natural disaster — usually brings people together to set a course of action in response. Somehow, we've let this one drive us apart."
As the old joke goes, "Who is this 'we,' Kemo Sabe?"
Will the media ever let bothsidesism go? Nearly 85,000 dead Americans apparently haven't convinced them it's time. Not even hours of lying rants and billions of rage-tweets from Benedict Donald, streams of falsehoods by Mike Pence, Press Secretary Blondie, and every hostage who's been dragged to the White House lectern as a prop, throngs of gun-toting know-nothings storming state capitols, threats to cancel the 2020 election, and conspiracy theories and bad propaganda vomited out of the mouths of FOX, OAN and Trump sycophants... none of it can deter the media from blaming everyone equally — Republicans, Democrats, the American people.
It's getting harder and harder to see our way out of this, and the failings of journalism are playing a big part in that. We cats HISS.
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