by Drew Holden
Today @bradyleonard & I agreed the 2020 man of the year is @RonDeSantisFL for his leadership in response to COVID, despite endless attacks from the media.
To add some context, I’ve put those attacks side by side with coverage of @NYGovCuomo.
Spot the difference?
As of today, NY’s deaths per 100k from coronavirus (188) is about double Florida’s (96). Florida and Gov. DeSantis seem to be doing something right in that regard.
But you would have no idea that was the case if you spend your days listening/watching/reading @MSNBC
The worst offender had to be @CNN, which is no surprise given Cuomo’s brother works there.But I mean. Cmon guys. This is egregious.
Also very interesting the ways that @CNN chooses to humanize (or not) each governor’s response.
Truth be told, this entire thread could’ve focused just on @CNN.Honestly I think this side by side sums it all up.
Both of these stories from @nytimes bill themselves as straight reporting.Okay.
I just. I’m not sure what we’re doing here @washingtonpost.
These two from @NPR also capture the situation perfectly.DeSantis gets fact-checked. Cuomo gets an Emmy.
I don’t even know what universe I’m living in anymore. @politico
I’ll pause here to drive the point home: by the most critical metric, deaths per capita, DeSantis has outperformed Cuomo enormously. Cuomo’s led one of the most disastrous crisis responses in US history.If NY were a country it’d have the highest death per capita IN THE WORLD. Back to your regularly scheduled programming.
Here’s @Slate – God bless them – who compared the governors they thought did the best and worst.
I think the headlines say it all.
Florida has good, warm weather and people who love going outdoors in it on it’s side while NY state is a miserable, cold, wet place where, even if you did go out in it, you’d have to bundle up and that would defeat the purpose of getting vitamin D from sunlight on your skin.
So, these are not really equal comparisons.
Still the media has been unfair to DeSantos in favor of Cuomo.
Now Cuomo is opening up the temporary hospitals he never used when Trump created them.
New York Gov. Cuomo reopens Covid field hospital in Staten Island as hospitalizations accelerate
PUBLISHED MON, NOV 23 2020
New York’s Temporary Overflow Hospitals Remain Underused Despite COVID-19 Crisis
April 7, 20204:06 PM ET
This recent bump in cases has caused him to panic and clamp down harder than ever on a sick-of-it public.
Now, there’ve been other uneven factors as well.
Like all the NY riots, lootings and illegal underground parties (in NY).
Meanwhile all the sun worshippers in FLA self distanced on their beaches …. telephoto lens trickery notwithstanding.
Have you considered the possibility that the comparison reflects less favorably on DeSantis for entirely legitimate reasons?
That would be a rhetorical question.
the media may like the rat Cuomo but the general population of ny hates him. goebbels’s propaganda designed media of the early 1930’s with the destruction and control of the press under Hitler is no different that today. medial propaganda and then radio control, now tech control of he internet is no different. Got to read and understand history. demonstrators are street trash. college and uni enrollment dropped 35% for this past fall study. ?? a further drop for spring enrollment.
OH! comrad greggy -poo. you still do not know the difference between information and disinformation.