FOX NEWS has been called out in an open letter by 77 leading professors of journalism and communications, saying their coverage of the pandemic is a "danger to public health". The letter cited FOX for, among other things:
1 - false statements downplaying the danger of COVID-19
2 - proposing their viewers try untested drugs
3 - refuting the safeguards that health authorities urged be followed by the public
"The misinformation that reaches the Fox News audience is a danger to public health. Indeed, it is not an overstatement to say that your misreporting endangers your own viewers - and not only them, for in a pandemic, individual behavior affects significant number of other people as well."
The letter specifically berates Sean Hannity, charging him with minimizing the dangers to the public and of blaming the Democrats of exaggerating the virus dangers to impede Trump's administration. Trump obviously takes his cue for his press briefings regarding the virus from such FOX mouthpieces as Tucker Carlson and Steve Hilton, along with Hannity.
The letter leaves the blame for the uncontrolled spread of this virus on the doorstep of, not only Trump and his administration, but specifically onto FOX News by their misrepresentation of the facts and refusal to acknowledge the findings of health experts and scientists. Trump is a President who relies not upon public health experts, not on scientific findings from acknowledged professionals, but upon the ignorant, misinformed and unconscionable prejudices of FOX news personnel. Rupert Murdock and son Lachlan control FOX News, FOX news seems to control Trump — and to therefore decide the fate of the American people.
This is another great cartooon by Bill Bramhall!