Cooke: Media has Much to Apologize for on Covid

From the blistering story, filled with receipts: When Cillizza says that “we need to recognize,” what he should mean is, “We need to apologize.” There is one reason and one reason alone that Cillizza and his ilk are running away from the Judgment of God assumption that has marked the press’s coverage of Covid for nearly two years: Now that they’ve contracted Covid themselves en masse, the ruse has become unsustainable. It is one thing to point at the hicks down South and conclude that they’re coughing because they have the wrong politics; it is quite another to reckon with what infection must mean when your own city is inundated, when your own friends are sick, when your own policies have failed. It’s different when it’s you and people like you. It’s different when the “adult” president proves as hapless as the “moron” president. It’s different when the Buzzfeed Christmas party, rather than Spring Break at the Lake of the Ozarks, becomes the super-spreader event of the season.

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