Fox News Is an Enemy of Ending the Pandemic
If the White House wants to continue the nation’s pandemic recovery efforts, it has to fight the news channel that has prioritized profits over people’s lives
For better or worse, Twitter is a useful way to clue some of us into the mindsets of those in government and media who help shape our news coverage. For this reason, it was frustrating to see anyone — much less people who ought to know better — champion Fox News host Sean Hannity for instructing his viewers to recognize their own mortality more than a year into a plague that has already taken the lives of more than 600,000 Americans.
“Please take Covid seriously,” Fox News’s Sean Hannity said on Monday night. “I can’t say it enough. Enough people have died. We don’t need any more death.” Later in the segment, he declared: “I believe in science. I believe in the science of vaccination.”
Some like Neera Tanden, who now serves as a senior political advisor to President Biden in the wake of her failed confirmation fight for budget director, decided to cheer this on as a perceived win. Quoting an NBC political reporter posting footage of Hannity’s broadcast, Tanden wrote: “Likely never going to say this again. Please retweet Sean Hannity.”
