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The @OWHnews is beyond saving.
In this thred you will see terrible journalism, buried ledes, shocking omissions, ridiculous headlines, and Republican pandering that would make Fox News blush.
1st, what we know: @RepDonBacon lied to us, he had Covid and hid it for 4 months.
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In this thred you will see terrible journalism, buried ledes, shocking omissions, ridiculous headlines, and Republican pandering that would make Fox News blush.
1st, what we know: @RepDonBacon lied to us, he had Covid and hid it for 4 months.
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The @owhnews ¿accidentally? broke that Bacon had Covid and lied about it for 1/3 a year in this story. The headline completely buries this MASSIVE development. The story was in the Lifestyle section, further proof it was overlooked ... or hidden.
https://omaha.com/lifestyles/health-med-fit/don-bacon-dealing-with-lingering-effects-of-covid-encourages-people-to-get-vaccine/article_0c4e1788-987b-11eb-954e-5f73f1eae1a4.html 2/
https://omaha.com/lifestyles/health-med-fit/don-bacon-dealing-with-lingering-effects-of-covid-encourages-people-to-get-vaccine/article_0c4e1788-987b-11eb-954e-5f73f1eae1a4.html 2/
After multiple unexplained edits by the World Herald to the story throughout the day, it ended with Bacon’s lie AND the truth, printed paragraphs apart but completely unacknowledged.
He quarantined both “out of caution” he might have covid and because he in fact did.
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He quarantined both “out of caution” he might have covid and because he in fact did.
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Everything up to this point is embarrassing for the World Herald, but what they printed today is where it goes to unforgivable territory.
They know they screwed up, so they publish a second story: https://omaha.com/lifestyles/health-med-fit/don-bacon-dealing-with-lingering-effects-of-covid-encourages-people-to-get-vaccine/article_0c4e1788-987b-11eb-954e-5f73f1eae1a4.html
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They know they screwed up, so they publish a second story: https://omaha.com/lifestyles/health-med-fit/don-bacon-dealing-with-lingering-effects-of-covid-encourages-people-to-get-vaccine/article_0c4e1788-987b-11eb-954e-5f73f1eae1a4.html
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Now, if you read that 1st story, you might be asking:
“Why did the 2ns story’s headline introduce zero new information that wasn’t in the 1st story but still not mention Bacon lied about his Covid diagnosis?”
I have zero clue.
TWO headlines WHIFF at explaining the actual news.
“Why did the 2ns story’s headline introduce zero new information that wasn’t in the 1st story but still not mention Bacon lied about his Covid diagnosis?”
I have zero clue.
TWO headlines WHIFF at explaining the actual news.
The second story does FINALLY print the money shot:
Don Bacon hid his Covid diagnosis from Nebraskans.
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Don Bacon hid his Covid diagnosis from Nebraskans.
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Then the @OWHnews must have just printed verbatim what it was told to by the Bacon campaign. The piece painstakingly works to humanize the liar, focuses on an accident he was in, brings up someone died in it, and seems to try to drown the major lie in sob story.
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No one at the @OWHnews seems concerned with how many people Bacon infected while lying about Covid. Was his staff even told about it? If so, were they ordered to lie as well? Were people with him when he caught it told, kept in the dark, and/or also told to lie?
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Then, in the cherry on top of the journalistic malpractice sundae, the @OWHnews decides to bring in Brad Ashford of all people to further cover for Bacon, and then NOT MENTION THAT ASHFORD ENDORSED BACON, actually introducing him only as a former opponent.
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Meanwhile, @donjbacon/ @repdonbacon has been attacking and slandering Nebraskans for two days, all ignored by the @OWHnews.
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