An NPR station in Seattle said that it no longer will carry live coverage of
President Donald Trump’s
coronavirus briefings because of concerns that they feature unchecked misleading or false information.
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KUOW is monitoring White House briefings for the latest news on the coronavirus — and we will continue to share all news relevant to Washington State with our listeners,” the station tweeted. “However, we will not be airing the briefings live due to a pattern of false or misleading information provided that cannot be fact checked in real time.”
Most recently,
Trump has called for lifting of social distancing guidelines in the near future, perhaps by Easter, even though public health professionals are still grappling with the spread of the virus. He also has made false claims about the availability of tests, the timeline for finding a vaccine and the potential benefits of a treatment that includes the ingredient chloroquine. While there is some promising study of its potential use, it has not it has not been approved for treatment. NBC News
reported on one Arizona man who died after ingesting chloroquine phosphate, and his wife said that they learned about its use after watching a briefing. The chloroquine they used was part of a product use to clean fish tanks, not for medical purposes.
Once again, whatever Trump says, the idiots on this board parrot, word for word.
Common sense, on the other hand, dictates if the spread of Covid19 increases with exposure to other people, avoid other people.
Seems simple enough, even for trumpers.
Maybe not. trumpers are not too bright.
Thats liberal welfare bums trying to suppress speech that they dont like
Guess this has to be explained to knuckledraggers ---- opting not to carry something LIVE is not in any way the same as "suppressing".
What a dumbass.
Say, aren't you the same deep intellect who tried to tell us that a reporter who would not lie about what he witnessed comprised "stupidity"? How'd that ever work out? Figure your own point out yet?
Still waiting on that. Any year now.
once again you ignore the substance of the issue,,,they want to ban the live broadcast and later edit out anything they dont like or disagree with,,,
your credibility is shot bud so go get more cookies from your mom,,,
Once again you fail to be able to read. Nobody "banned" anything.
The welfare bums at NPR banned live coverage of the trump china virus press conference
all the public will hear from NPR is what they want you to hear
Twenty THIRD time now ----
THIS.
IS.
***NOT***
A.
STORY.
ABOUT.
NPR.
PERIOD.
What part of "reading" don't you ******* GET??
******
NOR****** did
ANYONE "ban" ANY live coverage of
ANY press conference. Never happened. "NPR"took no action of any kind.
FULL ******* STOP.
What in the **** is WRONG with you? Do you get paid by the stupid?
stop it
you’re making me laugh
Ignorance is bliss they say.
For the stupids, let's roll the OP again, now post 131. Copied verbatim except I made the subject, the actor in the action,
real ******* big so even illiterates might be able to find it. Let's see if you can.
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Sunday at 11:25 AM
KUOW 94.9FM in Seattle, one of the first epicenters of the US Coronavirus outbreak, has discontinued live broadcasts of White House Coronavirus briefings due to the massive pattern of disinformation therein.
Station statement March 25 (in part):
>> After airing the White House briefings live for two weeks, a pattern of false information and exaggeration increasingly had many at KUOW questioning whether these briefings were in the best service of our mission—to create and serve a more informed public. Of even greater concern was the potential impact of false information on the health and safety of our community.
A sampling of exaggerations and false information that were not fact checked in real time:
● “Nobody knew there’d be a pandemic or an epidemic of this proportion,” President Trump said at a live White House briefing on March 19 despite warnings from the U.S. Intelligence community earlier this year.
● “You’re seeing very few empty shelves,” our listeners heard live from President Trump on March 20. Local reporting shows many stores are out of basic supplies, including hand soap.
● We’re going to be able to make the drug chloroquine “available almost immediately” said President Trump on March 19. The president claimed, incorrectly, that the FDA had fast-tracked approval of its use to treat COVID-19. There isn't current medical evidence of the efficacy of that drug in treating COVID-19.
Knowing this a very fluid situation, we will revisit this decision daily. <<
KUOW will continue to treat all opportunities for live preemption on a case-by-case basis weighing for importance, news value and immediacy of need-to-know. But be clear, KUOW and NPR will continue to cover White House briefings and share relevant information from federal government and public health sources in the format most useful to our listeners. <<
Inasmuch as broadcast licensing requires responsible operation as a public trust, this is a shining example of exercising it. As readers know the last named piece of misinformation has already led to an unnecessary death and hospitalization of a couple who followed that advice. so denying destructive disinformation the chance to damage the public is exactly the right call.
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