Dan GillmorDec 27, 2022

Big Journalism is still largely unwilling to call things what they are. Today's example is the Washington Post's use of "vaccine hesitancy" to describe a movement that is based on rejecting science and evidence in favor of dangerous and, increasingly, politically motivated lies.

The people who reject vaccines are attacking their communities. They spread disease and death. We should recognize this, and say it out loud.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/12/26/vaccine-hesitancy-measles-chickenpox-polio-flu/

Growing vaccine hesitancy fuels measles, chickenpox resurgence in U.S.

An Ohio measles outbreak among unvaccinated children comes at a time of heightened concern about the public health consequences of anti-vaccine sentiment.

The Washington Post
Show threadBigJay 🏳️‍🌈Dec 27, 2022
@dangillmor "vaccine hesitance" sounds a little more PC than "f-cking morons"
Show threadtoolbear#🪧Dec 27, 2022

@BigJay76 @dangillmor
I get this sentiment and have said effectively the same thing as you more than once.

Later, I appreciated the reminders that a better place for my ire is the media consolidation that has deprived communities of local & regional news, replacing them with coastal-centric outrage factories.

I'm not excusing ignorance, but regular folks don't have a choice about the information desert they physically live in or the disinformation battleground that is online journalism.

Show threadtoolbear#🪧

shoutout to the women of Gaslit Nation, Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior, for helping me think in these terms. Here Andrea interviews Sarah about her latest book THEY KNEW:

https://www.gaslitnationpod.com/episodes-transcripts-20/2022/9/14/they-knew-kendzior-interview

THEY KNEW — The Gaslit Nation Interview — Gaslit Nation

Finally, it’s out! Sarah’s latest book They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps Americans Complacent, is available in stores, as an ebook, and as an audiobook, so please go out and get it. If you like it, please tell your friends! Sarah lacks a crime cult PAC to bulk buy her works for money laun

Gaslit Nation
Dec 27, 2022 at 11:46amWeb