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A disturbing new study suggests Sean Hannity helped spread the coronavirus....

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-poli...19-fox-news-sean-hannity-misinformation-death

Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, media critics have warned that the decision from leading Fox News hosts to downplay the outbreak could cost lives. A new studyprovides statistical evidence that, in the case of Sean Hannity, that’s exactly what happened.

The paper — from economists Leonardo Bursztyn, Aakaash Rao, Christopher Roth, and David Yanagizawa-Drott — focused on Fox news programming in February and early March.

At the time, Hannity’s show was downplaying or ignoring the virus, while fellow Fox host Tucker Carlson was warning viewers about the disease’s risks.

Using both a poll of Fox News viewers over age 55 and publicly available data on television-watching patterns, they calculate that Fox viewers who watched Hannity rather than Carlson were less likely to adhere to social distancing rules, and that areas where more people watched Hannity relative to Carlson had higher local rates of infection and death.

The study: https://bfi.uchicago.edu/wp-content/uploads/BFI_WP_202044.pdf
 
Red said:
At the time, Hannity’s show was downplaying or ignoring the virus, while fellow Fox host Tucker Carlson was warning viewers about the disease’s risks.
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Also turns out an internal memo was circulated to Fox employees the week of March 13th telling them to restrict travel, work from home if possible and cancel in-person meetings - the same week as Trish Regan's now infamous "Coronavirus Impeachment Scam" segment on the Fox Business Network.
 
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candrew said:
Also turns out an internal memo was circulated to Fox employees the week of March 13th telling them to restrict travel, work from home if possible and cancel in-person meetings - the same week as Trish Regan's now infamous "Coronavirus Impeachment Scam" segment on the Fox Business Network.
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John Oliver describes it perfectly. They lie to their viewers to make money. They don’t actually believe their ****. They’re working from home and practicing social distancing. But to make money, they’re telling their viewers to do the opposite.

watch this, it’s incredible

 
Scat said:
You are a tool, finding glee in the loss of life to make a point.
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Well maybe funny is the wrong word, .. as Gameface said it's sad that's what it is, that the President would promote an unproven drug that's now doing more harm than good.

Imagine if everyone had followed his advice from the beginning.. how many more lives unnecessarily loss?
 
ONE LOVE said:
Well maybe funny is the wrong word, .. as Gameface said it's sad that's what it is, that the President would promote an unproven drug that's now doing more harm than good.

Imagine if everyone had followed his advice from the beginning.. how many more lives unnecessarily loss?
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Why should anybody in any country follow the medical advice from president or prime minister at all? I know that i do not i.e if the president of our country should say that no need to brush the teeth in evening then i would anyway follow common sense and try to remember what was taught at school and finally also ask the opinion of dentists that i know.
It seems that in every country people are trying to get rid of personal responsibility; no matter what happens, somebody else has always made a mistake and is guilty.
 
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