Coronavirus

On Tuesday, the New York State Comptroller found that former Governor Andrew Cuomo’s administration purposefully undercounted COVID nursing home deaths by over fifty percent, with one former Cuomo aide admitting it was done to prevent criticism from then-President Donald Trump. All three evening newscasts ignored this report, with Fox News’s Special Report and local Fox affiliate Fox 5 NY…

After spending weeks intensely covering the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the evening newscasts on Tuesday briefly returned to their previous obsession: hyping the COVID pandemic and pushing endless vaccinations and mask mandates on the public who for the most part just want to return to normal life.

The New York Times is clearly not ready for the pandemic to end, judging by Sunday’s story, “Two Years Into the Pandemic, Relief, Frustration and Fear as Mandates Ease” by Jack Healy and Ashley Wong. The online headline: “The Covid-19 Pandemic Has Lasted 2 Years. The Next Steps Are Divisive.” Two years into the pandemic, the paper is still ladling out more anxiety-enabling neuroticism…

New York Times Miami bureau chief Patricia Mazzei took another rhetorical bat to Florida’s new surgeon general Dr. Joseph Ladapo for rejecting overbearing Covid restrictions and regulations, in Tuesday’s edition: “Against C.D.C. Advice, Florida to Advise Against Covid Vaccines for Healthy Children.” Two weeks ago she unloaded on Ladapo, an immigrant from Nigeria, for resisting Covid…

The corruption of the Cuomo family knows no bounds. On Thursday, disgraced former CNN poster boy Chris Cuomo was back in the news again after the New York Post used New York State’s Freedom of Information Law to obtain e-mails showing Cuomo was offered an experimental COVID treatment, through his brother’s office, after he contracted the virus in April 2020. Although, he eventually…

It’s Episode 28 of CensorTrack with TR. This week we talked about how YouTube censored The Hill for reporting on the news, and censored Media Research Center for posting about the shift of national COVID-19 conversation.

Live-streaming platform Twitch is reportedly instituting stricter bans on “misinformation,” including supposed COVID-19 “misinformation.”

New York Times’ theatre critic Laura Collins-Hughes’ reviews from London's West End have sadly devolved into anxious screeds about Covid and masks, those cloth talismans of liberal moral superiority that she flaunts like a Trump fan would wear a MAGA hat: "It boggles my mind that so many theatergoers in London, sitting side by side for hours, don’t bother with that elementary…

A group of urban liberals come face to face with some awkward pandemic truths. Saturday Night Live too often produces propaganda, not satire. The show’s overtly liberal bent has shattered a legacy of mocking the powerful, regardless of party affiliation. For one night, though, the show’s propaganda gave way to something new. You could call it comic therapy. A Feb. 26 sketch featured…

By now you may have forgotten President Joe Biden gave his State of the Union address last week. On Monday, Biden walked across the White House lawn alone and in a mask. On Tuesday, he walked into a crowd of House members rejoicing that no more masks were needed. It was the perfect metaphor for Biden at governance and Biden at speech. First, forgive Biden for his flubs and twisted words. He is…

NBC spent not one, but two nights trying to make a scandal out of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis telling high-school kids behind his podium at an event that they didn't have to wear masks, since that was "ridiculous." NBC found an outraged parent and that completely nonpartisan head of the CDC for rebuttal. Even after the CDC relented on mask requirements, the networks are still ripping Republicans…

As even Democrats begin to rescind their mask mandates, NBC's Late Night host Seth Meyers pondered an important question on his Thursday show (which aired early Friday): “How much of a dick” is Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis for telling a group of high schoolers that masks aren’t necessary?

In an interview Thursday with The New York Times, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy demanded Big Tech platforms turn over “misinformation” about COVID-19 by May 2, saying they “have the opportunity to be open and transparent with the American people about the misinformation on their platforms.

At This Hour host and CNN Florida-based reporter Steve Contorno blasted Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday for pointing out what cities and states across the country are finally realizing: that masks are no longer necessary to fight COVID-19. Still, the duo labeled DeSantis a "scolding" hypocrite and falsely claimed that his COVID response was "far worse" than the rest of the country.