The media has a collective cognitive disorder.
The media reports news and then forgets what information they said.
When the Pandemic first struck America, all news sources put up CDC charts of the potential total number of deaths over time.
Does anyone remember those charts?
When you looked past a year, those numbers mounted up to 500,000 to a million dead.
Every day, you can hear the media wince about why this President acts the way he does.
Why does he lie and act the way he does?
Why?
Why?
They seem to forget that they tell us one week he's a sociopathic, malignant narcissist liar, and the following week it's totally forgotten.
Why does he keep lying?
Why does he have trouble with facts?
Why doesn't he remember what he said?
I'll acknowledge that the media are providing a kind of service to the nation.
Not everyone is up to date on every turn of current events.
These media people have busy lives; they can't be expected to keep track of facts.
Current day fact: Those who enter a public building today have to be reminded that there is a plague killing a thousand-plus people every day, and they need to wear masks.
Some people, very human, may not realize it's still killing people.
They have to be reminded.
The average person is too busy to keep the facts of a worldwide plague at the forefront of their lives.
A plague...
So the news purveyors do a rehash, a gentle reminder to their consumers each day of what was on the previous day's menu.
Yet the media forgets what they say as soon as they say it.
Yet the media forgets what they say as soon as they say it.
Yet the media forgets what they say as soon as they say it.
The biggest one in the past year, which continues every day, is what the media said about the mortality rates for black and brown people.
After the first two months, studies of mortality rates demonstrated that black and brown people were more adversely affected by COVID.
Black and brown people died more often than white people.
It was said over and over and over again.
Then, by June, we start to get a set of silly questions out of our news hosts.
Why are the President's supporters not wearing masks?
Why is the President saying you don't have to wear a mask?
Why are the President's rallies requiring attendees not to wear a mask?
Why are guys and gals with red hats, white trucks, and Trump flags all refusing to wear masks in public?
These questions require a memory.
The news hosts told America that black and brown people die at a higher rate than white people.
These questions require deductive reasoning.
Being able to recognize that 2 + 2 = 4.
If our news hosts didn't do more than just read the news and look at what the red hats are saying to each other daily.
Conservative Americans posting to each other over social media shared this scientific data that COVID-19 kills blacks.
Let the celebration begin!
The news hosts ask, Why are people not wearing a mask?
The answer is racism.
Racism you fools.
The second the news media said blacks die at a higher rate than whites from COVID was the second that white apartheid America took off their masks.
It is why white racist Americans will not put their masks back on.
A side note, that's 37% - 40% of Americans, which is the current President's base.
Understand the simple math?
COVID became a plague that kills them, not us.
It kills brown people.
White racists want brown people dead.
It kills brown people...
This lack of cognition is genuinely an all-too-human response.
News flash!
Did you know that McDonald's has a new breakfast sandwich?
Did you see that rat running away with a slice of pizza today?
Did you know we landed on the moon?
Humans take in information at all speeds.
From instantly to not at all.
News organizations report the news, but they don't necessarily understand what they are saying.
They speak before they think.
They expose themselves as readers, not thinkers.
They drill into the middle of a story and are proud of the hole they made.
But they all have a problem with the bigger picture.
The bigger meaning of what happens in the world.
If problems could be solved by throwing a switch, it would have been done long ago.
Problems in any society are an ugly mixed-meat sandwich.
Everyone in their camp thinks they got the best sandwich.
Each camp is willing to go to war over the selection of meat and condiments.
What we all need is a bridge of information.
A conduit of truth.
A concierge of just the facts.
Just the facts.
The facts.
Some good people are keeping track, making connections, and doing the work of analysis of the facts.
How for every action, there is a reaction.
The leaping from headline to headline, screaming like Chicken Little that the sky is falling, will only make a nation weary.
Listen more.
2 + 2 = 4
Serve, We the People.
Facts.
Listen.
Peace
Daniel J Frey aka Toby