No, seriously
https://twitter.com/mffisher/status/1242957612204916739
This is the state of journalism these days. Yesterday, Sissy Willis responded to this
Ted Koppel: With so many people spreading "absolute nonsense and sometimes damaging nonsense over the internet," this is a time "when, rather than questioning the credibility of the media, we need to reinforce it." https://t.co/aUyhmFhuAm
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) March 25, 2020
To which I wrote
Brian, Jake, I work in new car sales, and we have to EARN people's trust because of reputation and a small number being shady. EARN. We work hard for this, I work hard for this. I have to prove it.
You Credentialed Media folks might take a hint
— William Teach2 ??????? #refuseresist (@WTeach2) March 25, 2020
Is this trust inspiring?
(Washington Post) Scott McMillan had had it with being cooped up, with the whole country being closed, with the collapsing market and the isolation, the constant worry and the politicians who didn’t take the coronavirus seriously when they could have.
On Sunday night, McMillan, a 56-year-old lawyer in La Mesa, Calif., near San Diego, saw President Trump’s tweet about how “WE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM ITSELF.†The lawyer took to Twitter to add his own two cents:
“The fundamental problem is whether we are going to tank the entire economy to save 2.5% of the population which is (1) generally expensive to maintain, and (2) not productive.â€
And then he trended or something, so
Scott’s father, Jim McMillan, is alive. He is 78. Scott’s mother, Gloria, is 75. They are well. They are, by Scott’s measure, not productive. Jim is a retired lawyer. Gloria is a retired high school English teacher.
They have been especially not productive since Feb. 23, which is the last time they left their house in San Diego, when Gloria and her friends went to see the Los Angeles Opera perform “Eurydice.†Well, the last time except for 10 days ago, when Jim said he was going to Home Depot to get a light switch to replace the one that went on the fritz. Gloria gave him permission to run that errand, if he gloved up and put on a mask and used the sanitizer.
Fisher actually tracked them down and interviewed them. There are many, many more paragraphs to the story, and many on the parents. And the media wonders why they are less trustworthy than Congress?
