"Describing [RFK's] views as ‘controversial,’ I think, is dishonest. They’re not controversial. They’re false. He’s not spreading controversial views, he’s spreading lies. And so the framing matters enormously, and that’s something that I foresee being a huge, huge issue in the 2024 campaign."
Agreed!
Some key distinctions made by journalist Seth Mnookin in this sharp interview. (He wrote a book about the anti-vaccine movement in 2011.)
@jayrosen_nyu Ah, I remember when HuffPo was anti-vaxxer central.
Nice of them to 'fess up to that.
Hilariously that piece tries to rewrite the record and pass it off as tho they were just an open blog platform with a few cranks, but its namesake and editor-in-chief was (is?) an anti-vaxxer and all her celebrity friends were donating their anti-vax diatribes to the cause.
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And Ron Paul wants to sell us Gold IRAs
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/07/25/gold-ira-conservative-media/
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