Earlier this week, we Report Associated Press Hit Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and how it fell apart after it was finally shown by multiple people included Other reporters Christina Pushaw, Press Secretary of DeSantis, believes that the central premise of this article-DeSantis’ participation in the equivalent of a “paid game” activity when promoting Regeneron COVID-19 antibody treatment-is seriously flawed and may be deliberately misleading.
In addition, as my colleague Bonchie pointed out, there is not only treatment—it also Touted Biden Administration-has been shown to help prevent certain COVID patients from being hospitalized, but ” [DeSantis] The donor is a hedge fund manager who manages nearly $40 billion in assets. The company in question only accounts for a small portion of the total investment, so that it doesn’t matter. In fact, they are not even real investments. “
In short, the Associated Press reporter Brendan Farrington constructed the story the way he did. From a public health point of view, this is very irresponsible, which may lead to some Humans assume that antibodies have no real benefit. DeSantis and his donors can get treatments other than treatments that can be obtained by promoting it.
In response to the criticism he received, he did not modify the title-this is the biggest problem, considering that sometimes the title is read by everyone-Farrington, his Twitter page is now locked, but Allegedly He received death threats from DeSantis supporters because Pushaw himself allegedly threatened him (we checked her Twitter timeline and concluded that his allegations were wrong) just to tell him if he didn’t correct the title , She will let him “explode.”
Others in the media rush To defend him, he more or less adopted the method of “how dare you question the content of our report”. Needless to say, few people believe in the press in this day and age.
Associated Press Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Daisy Veerasingham (Daisy Veerasingham) officially updated all the plot surrounding this story Replied today What happened was not to admit that the news organization messed up the headline and then correct it, but wrote a letter to Governor DeSantis where they reprimanded Pushaw for having been focusing on getting Farrington to correct the headline by putting pressure on the public. He used the Twitter machine:
this @AssociatedPress Writing @GovRonDeSantis Today’s reply: his press secretary, @ChristinaPushaw, And her “direct efforts to activate online thugs to attack” @FLPressCorps reporter. “We call on you to eliminate this attack strategy from your press office,” the executive vice president of the Associated Press asked. pic.twitter.com/ghyK7Lwy2K
-Troy Kinsey (@TroyKinsey) August 20, 2021
Absolutely pitiful.
Pushau responded accordingly:
The only words that threaten public health and safety are words in popular Associated Press articles, especially headlines. https://t.co/mWMi8oCOcy
— Christina Pushaw (@ChristinaPushaw) August 20, 2021
As I wrote yesterday, if a random Twitter user does threaten Farrington with bodily harm or death, this is absolutely unacceptable and he should submit the tweet to the local law enforcement agency for investigation. However, people who counter reporters simply by pointing out the facts are not “harassing” or “threatening” mainstream media members.
To reiterate, journalists should not think that they are blameless or blameless. Only the past four years+ have been flooded with fake news reports one after another. Not only has it destroyed trust in the media, but millions of people have been misled by false reports and their views have been distorted.
Although threats to reporters are not a good thing, correcting the record is definitely a good thing. People should continue to do so and don’t be afraid to back down when others in the industry double their efforts instead of doing the right thing and simply admitting that they were wrong.
flashback: There is some real concern about Ron DeSantis and vaccines
