However haltingly and incompletely, the president’s favorite news outlet has started to acknowledge that the coronavirus is a far graver threat than even Trump will acknowledge.
WASHINGTON — When Dr. Tom Frieden, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said this week on Fox News that Americans needed to wear face masks to protect themselves from the coronavirus, anchor Sandra Smith did not challenge him on the science. Or the policy. She did not accuse him of fearmongering, or working to undermine President Trump.
Another headline on the Fox News website earlier this week posed a question laced with obvious skepticism: “Wasn’t summer supposed to kill the coronavirus?” Among those who had hoped as much was the president, who suggested in April that warmer weather might defeat the pathogen, which causes a potentially deadly disease called COVID-19.
It was a remarkable turn for a news organization whose most prominent personalities have been among Trump’s most trusted advisers. However haltingly and incompletely, the president’s favorite news outlet has started to acknowledge, across various programs and its news site, that the coronavirus is a far graver threat than even Trump himself will acknowledge.
The recent outbreaks have been confined primarily to the Sun Belt and the Midwest, where both Trump and Fox News tend to be popular . A recent Harvard study found that “conservative media exposure correlates with higher levels of misinformation” about the coronavirus. “For some reason, over the last couple of weeks, a month, masks have become political,” said Steve Doocy, co-host of the president’s favored “Fox & Friends” morning program on Thursday.
Carlson recently blasted a mask decree by the mayor of Los Angeles, charging that it had been issued with “no scientific evidence whatsoever.”
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