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In a piece posted on Thursday evening, Washington Post media reporter Erik Wemple called out CNN for the liberal news network’s refusal to admit that they misinformed viewers in claiming that podcast host Joe Rogan used “horse dewormer” to treat his COVID infection.
Wemple had just prodded CNN into giving an official statement on the subject in which their PR department doubled down in defending how their anchors handled the issue. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video The media could not be loaded, either because the server or network failed or because the format is not supported.
CNN’s statement read: The heart of this debate has been purposely confused and ultimately lost. It’s never been about livestock versus human dosage of Ivermectin. The issue is that a powerful voice in the media, who by example and through his platform, sowed doubt in the proven and approved science of vaccines while promoting the use of an unproven treatment for covid-19 — a drug developed to ward off parasites in farm animals. The only thing CNN did wrong here was bruise the ego of a popular podcaster who pushed dangerous conspiracy theories and risked the lives of millions of people in doing so. After reciting quotes from some of the many times that CNN anchors and analysts had flat-out stated that Rogan was using “horse dewormer” or a drug that was made for use in “livestock,” Wemple added: They turn up a consistent formulation from multiple CNN voices that surely wasn’t a sober recitation of the facts. By highlighting that ivermectin is a horse dewormer, and downplaying that ivermectin has important uses for people, CNN facilitates a certain assumption among its viewers. Namely, that Rogan had been haunting the aisles of Tractor Supply. Video of the coverage also shows that the chyron repeatedly displayed on screen words to the effect that Rogan was taking “horse dewormer” or a “livestock drug.”
Although these statements aired on CNN the first week of September, it was not until October 13 that Rogan confronted CNN medical […]
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They’re Trying to Shut Us Down
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