Sure Looks Like There’s a Coordinated CNN Effort Underway on that COVID Messaging – Opinion

It certainly looks like CNN coordinated the effort to flip the COVID messaging.

I wrote earlier about Brian Stelter’s sudden change – talking about “living with COVID” running as a chyron, saying that we needed to reassess the approach and arguing that kids should no longer be kept out of schools because it was harmful to them. This follows the report that some on the Biden team might be changing their messaging and moving to the concept of “living with COVID.”

But CNN’s Chris Cillizza seems to have had a revelation as well. After 18 months of working at CNN, it is quite shocking to finally see people being truthful.

“I’ve been thinking a lot about why the latest surge has hit me so hard and I think it’s because I have been fooling myself — to some extent — for the last 18 months,” Cillizza tweeted. “Because the reality is — and has always been even if I didn’t realize it — that the vaccines don’t, really, prevent you from getting the virus. Or, at least, they don’t guarantee it won’t happen. My friend @cwarzel described the view of many people he knew as “chill” about the reality that lots and lots of us (maybe all?) are going to get Covid at some point in the not-too-distant future.” That’s similar to the pitch that Stelter was making in his remarks.

“I’m, um, not in the “chill” stage,” Cillizza continued. “But, I at least am realizing how badly I miscalculated what the vaccine means and what it is supposed to do. According to all the available data, it’s doing its job (preventing serious illness and death among those infected). It can’t do the job I hoped it would: Protect my loved ones from being infected. It is now my job to accept that fact. It is obvious that I have a lot to learn from others. But, you have to start somewhere.”

Cillizza and Stelter are supposed to be “journalists.” But they’ve ignored basic realities for how many months? Cillizza accepts this right now. Instead, they’ve just pitched fear. Any reasonable question was attacked. Indeed, Cillizza’s tweets a few months ago could have gotten him in trouble with Twitter.

Cillizza was given a reality check by real journalists.

“So, uh, freedom? Or something?” was an actual line in this @ChrisCillizza piece from Aug where he tied unmasking kids to Florida’s case rate. But now that it’s NY being hit, Cillizza is ready to accept sanity. Great, welcome. We are sorry. https://t.co/xzC0maEhTU

— Karol Markowicz (@karol) December 19, 2021

I think it’s because your news sources have failed to tell you the truth @ChrisCillizzaYou can try the @nypost @FoxNews 😉 https://t.co/EQBycGB0qL

— Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) December 19, 2021

The bottom line is that porn seems to fail, and CNN begins to accept reality.