> > > *For an excellent demonstration of how not to be a journalist, watch this > unhinged* > *attack by CNN's John Berman on Peter Navarro, White House trade advisor, > for* > *having the audacity to disagree with Dr. Fauci on the wisdom of treating > COVID-19* > *patients with hydroxychloroquine: * > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oLstAAhhww. > *To say that Berman was "biased" rather understates the virulence with > which he* > *badgered, insulted, interrupted and misquoted Navarro, acting less like a > reporter* > *than like a Merck propagandist—which, of course, is what he is.* > > *You'll find the same ferocious deference to Il Fauci in "Trump Again > Pushes Drug,* > *Never Mind Expert Opinion," a brief screed that required the labor of > three New* > *York Times reporters—Michael Crowley, Katie Thomas and Maggie "Putin Ate > My* > *Homework" Haberman—who evidently needed one another's help to cut and* > *paste what the Gray Lady has already published on hydroxychloroquine, > the * > *Bad Man who's said it "may help you to get better" if you have COVID-19, > and * > *the **Good Doctor who keeps saying that it may not, and may even do you harm,*
> *so nobody should be taking it.* > > https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/05/us/politics/trump-hydroxychloroquine-coronavirus.html > > *That narrative pervades the "liberal media," whose war-like partiality to > Dr.* > *Fauci's view has left their audience (trembling) in the dark. Let's start by * > *start by noting that there's been a near-total blackout on the FDA's > approval* > *of hydroxychloroquine for off-label use. That measure—announced a week* > *ago—has been reported only by Fox News and the New York Post, while the* > *New York Times and all the other "liberal media" have simply blacked it > out,* > *despite the FDA's explicit statement that, while not yet officially > approved,* > *hyrdoxychloroquine sulfate "may help you to get better" if you have the > virus.* > *(So it wasn't Trump who used those words, as I mischievously wrote above,* > *but the FDA.) * > https://www.fda.gov/media/136538/download > > https://nypost.com/2020/03/30/fda-approves-limited-use-of-malaria-drugs-for-coronavirus/ > > https://www.foxnews.com/health/fda-oks-emergency-authorization-of-drugs-touted-by-trump-to-fight-coronavirus > > *The Times has been especially careful to avoid reporting the FDA's * > *revised position. **On April 2, three days after the FDA released the* > *"fact sheet" announcing its new stand, the TImes ran a teeny item* > *at the bottom of p. A6, down in the lefthand corner of the page,* > *entitled "Study Shows Benefit From Malaria Drug." That wee piece* > *(barely) reported the results of a randomized clinical trial carried* > *out in Wuhan, demonstrating that the drug "significantly shortened"* > *recovery time for those with COVID-19. Rather than go into such* > *detail, the Times piece did include an **an enthusiastic response * > *from Dr. William **Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at* > *Vanderbilt, **offering a view at striking variance with Dr. Fauci's * > *categorical **insistence that there's nothing there: "It's going to * > *send a ripple **of excitement out through the treating community"* > *—a "ripple" **that the Times et al. have taken great pains to deny. * > https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.22.20040758v2 > > https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/01/health/hydroxychloroquine-coronavirus-malaria.html > > *The day **after imperceptibly reporting that new Wuhan study, * > *and **as if in atonement for it, the Times ran "Touting Cure Brings* > *'Simple Country Doctor' Cheers, and Doubts," a long, chilly* > *profile of Dr. Vladimir Zelenko, who claims to have **used * > *hydrooxychloroquine, axithromycin and zinc sulfate to cure* > *hundreds of COVID-19 patients in Kryas Joel, a New **York * > *village with a Hasidic population. Rather than use that **story * * to suggest that maybe there is something to the promise of* > *hydroxychloroquine after all—which is to say, that maybe * > *Dr. **Fauci has it wrong—the Times' Kevin Roose and Matthew* > *Rosenberg, just following orders, use every grounds to* > *cast the doctor's story as a "parable" of how, within "our* > *fragile information ecosystem," we're all at risk if we don't* > *listen only to the likes of Dr. Fauci, "Bill and Melinda Gates," * > *and the **reporters at the Times: i.e., Those Who Know enough* > *to save us from the toxic "jumble of facts, falsehoods and* > *viral rumors" swirling miasmatically online. (The Times'* > *own online title to that piece is blunter than the paper version: * > *"Touting Virus **Cure, 'Simple Country Doctor' Becomes a Right-Wing Star.")* > > https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/technology/doctor-zelenko-coronavirus-drugs.html > > *All that poisoned tripe from "our free press" is based squarely * > *not **on science, but on propaganda—especially Dr. Fauci's lie,* > *which he repeats hypnotically (as winning propaganda always * > *does), that there has been no proper scientific study of * > *hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19, that all the claims of* > *its success are purely "anecdotal." The watchdogs of our* > *media believe that line because that's what they're paid to do,* > *not because they've had their teams look into it and see if* > *Dr. Fauci's right. Doing so would weaken his authority, on* > *which (let me speak bluntly) scumbags like John Berman* > *are dependent—totally and abjectly dependent—for their * > *belligerent certitude in shouting down whoever knows* > *what Dr. Fauci doesn't want the world to know about * > > *And so, if they were journalists, John Berman and the rest* > *of them would know that, as long ago as Feb. 4, a team* > *of Chinese doctors reported, in a letter to the editors of* > *Cell Research, that hydroxychloroquine—and the anti-* > *viral drug remdesevir—showed great effectiveness against* > *the new coronavirus in vitro. (The letter also ran in Nature.)* > https://www.nature.com/articles/s41422-020-0282-0 > > *And on Feb. 20, the International Journal of Antimicrobial* > *Agents published the results of an open-label, non-randomized* > *clinical trial of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin in the* > *treatment of COVID-19 patients—the work of 18 specialists,* > *headed by Didier Raoult, the eminent French specialist whom* > *Macron's government has been vigorously smearing, in* > *deference to Big Pharma—as is much of "our free press,"* > *Slate lately calling him "the Trumpian French doctor behind* > *the chloroquine hype." This despite Dr. Raoult's golden * > *reputation: "According to the Thomson Reuters source* > *'Highly Cited Researchers List,' Raoult is among the most* > *influential researchers in his field [infectious diseases]* > *and his publications are among the 1% most consulted in* > *academic journals," we learn from Wikipedia. That Dr.* > *Raoult is not only a far more prolific researcher than* > *Dr. Fauci, but one whose latest research could obstruct* > *Big Pharma's plans, explains why "our free press" reveres* > *the latter, and either slanders or blacks out the former* > *(whose work has not been mentioned by the New York Times).* > h > https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0924857920300996?via%3Dihub > > https://asiatimes.com/2020/03/why-france-is-hiding-a-cheap-and-tested-virus-cure/ > > > https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/03/didier-raoult-hydroxychloroquine-plaquenil.html > > *And so the evidence that this drug shows effectiveness against the* > *virus isn't "anecdotal" after all—which means that Dr. Fauci can't be * > *trusted, and neither can the Western press that treats him as a sage, * > *and not **an instrument **of the huge industry that owns them all. That* > *danger is severe—and one that we can only overcome by breaking* > *out of house arrest, and gathering again, as soon as possible.* > > *MCM* > > > > > > -- If you appreciate News From Underground, please consider making a donation — either a one-time gift or a monthly subscription: http://markcrispinmiller.com/support/ Thank you for your support. Ways to unsubscribe: 1) send a blank email to newsfromunderground+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com PLEASE NOTE: you must unsubscribe using the SAME email with which you subscribed 2) go to http://groups.google.com/group/newsfromunderground and click on the "Unsubscribe or change membership" link in the yellow bar at the top of the page, then click the "Unsubscribe" button on the next page. For more News From Underground, visit http://markcrispinmiller.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "News From Underground" group. 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