Every time I read stuff like this I can't help but think of the South Park episode where the Broflovski's buy a Prius and move to San Francisco and everyone captures their farts in glasses and sniffs them because they've convinced themselves they smell good. 1/ https://twitter.com/marcambinder/status/1265869444900773888

Or, if you prefer, the Office where Michael Scott is asked about his weaknesses and he says he works too hard, cares too much, and is too invested in his job. 2/

I mean, if you've been following the media coverage and honestly believe the agenda at work here isn't "if it bleeds it leads" but is rather "truth" and "science" you've either not been paying attention or are willfully ignorant. 3/ https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/05/15/the_costly_failure_to_update_sky-is-falling_predictions_143215.html

I repeat: The Atlantic, a major "sorta-neutral-ish establishment-groupthink" paper ran an article accusing Georgia of engaging in human sacrifice by reopening. There has been zero follow-up (as far as my Google will tell me) since that hasn't exactly come to pass. 4/

And the distinction in the article between political decisions and politicized decisions is fine for some sort of platonic ideal of new coverage, but in the real world it stands about as much chance of holding up as I do of becoming pope. 5/

There's a *reason* the media's approval rating is consistently in the toilet, beyond the point where it can just be blamed on Republican fantasies of bias. Yet they just trudge on, thinking of themselves as firefighters charging into a blaze or whatever. 6/6