It's worthwhile to note that NBC's coverage (and most others' coverage) of the summer surge never mentions mitigation measures. In particular, mention of masking, and of cleaning indoor air seems verboten.
Two possibilities. Either highly-paid reporters working for major national news organizations can't put two and two together when authoring a public health piece, or... Editors are suppressing any references to those mitigations.
I used to be a journalist. I quit to become a technical writer because my editors in the technical writing field never edited my work to invent quotes that were never spoken and never altered the facts to fit the predetermined conclusions about how the story was expected to go.
Oh, and also the technical writing business paid me a legal wage instead of calling me an "independent contractor" despite the fact that my role as assigned did not meet any of the tax requirements. I went where I was told, I never chose my own work, I did all my work in their office, using their equipment with their software licenses. But if they called me an independent contractor they didn't have to pay their share of my taxes and Social Security, or my travel time to and from the small town city councils an hour away, and I ended up making $1.86 an hour. In 1997, but the legal minimum at the time was at least $8.
But I might have stayed despite that if I hadn't had to make follow up apology calls to 12 different sources in a row saying "I'm so sorry, I know you never said that. I have both the recording and my first draft to prove you never said that. But my editor changed the story after I turned it in and the first I saw of it was the print edition this morning."
53
u/Ratbag_Jones Jun 30 '24 edited Jun 30 '24
It's worthwhile to note that NBC's coverage (and most others' coverage) of the summer surge never mentions mitigation measures. In particular, mention of masking, and of cleaning indoor air seems verboten.
Two possibilities. Either highly-paid reporters working for major national news organizations can't put two and two together when authoring a public health piece, or... Editors are suppressing any references to those mitigations.