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AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) Anyone who has been following RedState — or more specifically, my writing at RedState — would know that I am very good with data. At the beginning of the pandemic, I analyzed the data coming off one of the cruise ships where the SARS-CoV-2 virus first came to light. At the time, I was looking for patterns in the data which could tell us who may have brought the virus onto the ship in the first place as well as the affected populations. Later, as the left hailed the COVID-19 restrictions forced upon the residents of blue states, it became clear, from very easily accessible data, that the restrictions were not working. When testing soared and so did numbers for COVID positive tests, Trump was crucified by the media for appropriately attributing the problem. Even here at RedState, as we have attempted to report on the data (and actual science), the MSM and BigTech have shut down our ability to reach audiences as a result of what amounted to their denial of cold-hard facts.
As we have now suddenly entered this post-COVID-panic environment, we are suddenly allowed to talk about the reality of the COVID-nightmare, and what all of the data, science, and facts really mean. Although we have been talking about this for months, suddenly certain MSM sources are starting to catch on. First, it was The Intercept and then The Daily Mail . Now it appears that The Atlantic has joined the fray.
Today, The Atlantic published an article entitled “ Our Most Reliable Pandemic Number is Losing Meaning ” (which appears to have been originally entitled “COVID Hospitalization Numbers Can Be Misleading”), reporting on a new study that analyzed data coming out of hospitalization cases. Weeks ago, when cases and hospitalizations began to rise, I suggested (because of this thing called “data”) that COVID-19 hospitalizations went up because the bar for hospitalizations went down. Simply put, the numbers went up because hospitals lowered their standards for which COVID patients should be hospitalized. The study that The Atlantic published? It suggests that very thing.
So what has […]
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Will America-First News Outlets Make it to 2023?
Things are looking grim for conservative and populist news sites.
There’s something happening behind the scenes at several popular conservative news outlets. 2021 was bad, but 2022 is proving to be disastrous for news sites that aren’t “playing ball” with the corporate media narrative. It’s being said that advertisers are cracking down, forcing some of the biggest ad networks like Google and Yahoo to pull their inventory from conservative outlets. This has had two major effects. First, it has cooled most conservative outlets from discussing “taboo” topics like Pandemic Panic Theater, voter fraud, or The Great Reset. Second, it has isolated those ad networks that aren’t playing ball.
Certain topics are anathema for most ad networks. Speaking out against vaccines or vaccine mandates is a certain path to being demonetized. Highlighting voter fraud in the 2020 and future elections is another instant advertising death penalty. Throw in truthful stories about climate change hysteria, Critical Race Theory, and the border crisis and it’s easy to understand how difficult it is for America-First news outlets to spread the facts, share conservative opinions, and still pay the bills.
Without naming names, I have been told of several news outlets who have been forced to either consolidate with larger organizations or who have backed down on covering certain topics out of fear of being “canceled” by the ad networks. I get it. This is a business for many of us and it’s not very profitable. Those of us who do this for a living are often barely squeaking by, so loss of additional revenue can often mean being forced to make cuts. That means not being able to cover the topics properly. Its a Catch-22: Tell the truth and lose the money necessary to keep telling the truth, or avoid the truth and make enough money to survive. Those who have chosen survival simply aren’t able to spread the truth properly.
We will never avoid the truth. The Lord will provide if it is His will. Our job is simply to share the facts, spread the Gospel, and educate as many Americans as possible while exposing the forces of evil.
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Thank you, and God Bless!
JD Rucker