by Jay Greenberg at Neon Nettle
A Washington Post reporter has admitted that the push from the establishment media, to dismiss reports that COVID-19 came from a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) lab, was part of an anti-Trump effort.
The corporate press spent much of the pandemic dismissing the theory that the coronavirus could have accidentally leaked from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology.
According to Washington Post senior reporter Aaron Blake, the media was motivated to reject the theory because President Donald Trump talked about it.
In an analysis piece published Monday, Blake revealed that reporters were more interested in discrediting President Trump than considering his concerns about the origins of the virus.
“It has become evident that some corners of the mainstream media overcorrected when it came to one particular theory from Trump and his allies: that the coronavirus emanated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, rather than naturally,” Blake wrote.
“It’s also true that many criticisms of the coverage are overwrought and that Trump’s and his allies’ claims invited and deserved skepticism.”…
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