There’s a saying that you have to acknowledge a problem before you can fix it. But some journalists, like CNN’s Don Lemon, refuse to admit the left-wing media has destroyed their own credibility all on their own.
Appearing on New Day Friday morning, Lemon reported on a Louisiana hospital overrun with COVID patients and blamed conservative media for vaccine hesitancy. The evening host reported from the hospital, talking to unvaccinated patients about their regret for not getting a vaccine. Afterwards, Lemon told co-hosts Brianna Keilar and John Berman that Fox News and conservative media’s “attacks on journalism” were responsible for the sad state of affairs, even though no one in the report claimed Fox News or the right told them to not get the vaccine.
Lemon claimed what was “most frustrating” was “propaganda media on the right” and “attacks on journalism” have made Americans distrust the media, and thus what the media says about everything related to coronavirus as well.
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It was sad and frustrating and it made me question how the messaging going out, quite frankly, from all of us, from our political leaders in Washington, for us here in news media, and quite frankly, especially from the, you know, propaganda media on the right which doesn't often operate in facts and reality. That was the most frustrating part for me. I think that because of the attacks on our institutions in this country over the past five or six years or so, the attacks on journalism, people don't know what to believe because they hear so much rhetoric out there, and I think it's incumbent on us to make people more media literate, but it's also incumbent upon the other guys to speak the truth. So those people they just don't know what to believe because they've been fed such lines of B.S. for so long, that the media is fake.
Here we are every single day giving people the facts, telling them what the science is saying in the moment. And as you know, this disease, this virus it changes, it mutates. There are variants so the science often changes. So when it changes they use that to say, hey, you know, they're not telling you the truth. But we are. And I think there was also what I learned as well is that by speaking with them there at the hospital and other doctors and other folks who are out there, everyone thought then that it was great, you know, get it out fast. Name it operation warp speed. That was a mistake, because just by saying warp speed, it put into people's minds, cemented that this was too fast and perhaps it had not been tested when they don't realize this sort of MRNA vaccine has been -- this medicine, this has been worked on for decades.
What Lemon won’t acknowledge is that the media’s bias has been evident throughout their reporting on the pandemic, from squashing the lab leak theory, to calling blaming China for the virus, racist, and excusing anti-vaccine comments from Democrats before the election. None of that was a result of changing science. Not to mention Lemon making obnoxious statements like this on CNN: "‘I’m Not Partisan’ But Dems Must Save America From Insane, Obsolete GOP," doesn't help the media's credibility.
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Read the transcript below:
New Day
8/13/21
BRIANNA KEILAR: And Don Lemon is joining us now. Don, this is such a powerful report that you have done there. And the regret that we're hearing from those patients. What was it like, this experience?
DON LEMON: It was sad and frustrating and it made me question how the messaging going out, quite frankly, from all of us, from our political leaders in Washington, for us here in news media, and quite frankly, especially from the, you know, propaganda media on the right which doesn't often operate in facts and reality. That was the most frustrating part for me. I think that because of the attacks on our institutions in this country over the past five or six years or so, the attacks on journalism, people don't know what to believe because they hear so much rhetoric out there, and I think it's incumbent on us to make people more media literate, but it's also incumbent upon the other guys to speak the truth. So those people they just don't know what to believe because they've been fed such lines of B.S. for so long, that the media is fake. Here we are every single day giving people the facts, telling them what the science is saying in the moment. And as you know, this disease, this virus it changes, it mutates. There are variants so the science often changes. So when it changes they use that to say, hey, you know, they're not telling you the truth. But we are. And I think there was also what I learned as well is that by speaking with them there at the hospital and other doctors and other folks who are out there, everyone thought then that it was great, you know, get it out fast. Name it operation warp speed. That was a mistake, because just by saying warp speed, it put into people's minds, cemented that this was too fast and perhaps it had not been tested when they don't realize this sort of MRNA vaccine has been -- this medicine, this has been worked on for decades. There have been -- there was covid before this. It wasn't covid-19, but it was another form. So this is not something that is exactly new. Scientists and doctors have been working on this for decades. But I think the most frustrating part for me was that it didn't have to happen. John and Brianna, it doesn't have to happen because we have something that will help you either not get it, or if you get it then you won't get as sick. And what people don't realize is when they say, ‘I have my freedom and I have my liberty.’ Of course you do. But your freedom and your liberty just does not affect you. This is a community effort, a group effort. And so if you don't -- if you are selfish, quite frankly, and you don't get the vaccine, then you are putting a strain on the resources at the hospital, the people who have to work there, some of those people have been there nine days. And then you go into the hospital and you take resources from people who are actually doing the right thing, who are getting the vaccine, and who are not inundating the hospitals. 90% of the people who are in that hospital of the patients there for covid, and that's most of the hospital now, they are in there because they're unvaccinated. So you're selfish, you won't get the vaccine, you don't believe in the science, and then when you get the coronavirus, you rush to the hospital and you use the science, you take the resources which could be used for other things that you didn't have to be there for. So I just want people to keep that in mind as they are saying, I don't want to take this. I'm nervous about it. This vaccine has been worked on for quite a long time. It's not just something that came in warp speed. And don't be selfish. Think about others. Especially for people who live in the South and the Bible belt who say that they're Christians and they believe in the Bible. The Lord helps those who help themselves. That's what the governor said to me as he was doing his -- he was praying and fasting for the past couple days. And also do unto others as you would have them do unto you, which means you are here to protect your fellow man, not to be selfish.
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