by … is the concluding sentence of Antony Davies’s and James Harrigan’s November 28th, 2020, essay, “Blinded by a Blizzard of Data“: That the media has consistently reported on Covid without appropriate context suggests that historians will look back on 2020 less for its outbreak of Covid than for its outbreak of hysteria. DBx: Yes. I am certain of it. As Wall Street Journal columnist Holman Jenkins said, 2020 is humanity’s “year of living derangedly.” And no institution has contributed more to this tragic derangement than has the media with their almost criminally reckless ‘reporting.’ Comments
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… is the concluding sentence of Antony Davies’s and James Harrigan’s November 28th, 2020, essay, “Blinded by a Blizzard of Data“:
That the media has consistently reported on Covid without appropriate context suggests that historians will look back on 2020 less for its outbreak of Covid than for its outbreak of hysteria.
DBx: Yes. I am certain of it. As Wall Street Journal columnist Holman Jenkins said, 2020 is humanity’s “year of living derangedly.” And no institution has contributed more to this tragic derangement than has the media with their almost criminally reckless ‘reporting.’