{"id":12396,"date":"2020-05-27T10:00:21","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T17:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12396"},"modified":"2020-05-26T16:15:59","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T23:15:59","slug":"the-doctrine-of-media-untruth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-doctrine-of-media-untruth\/","title":{"rendered":"The Doctrine of Media Untruth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a general rule, when the&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em>, the&nbsp;<em>Washington Post<\/em>, National Public Radio, Public Broadcasting Service, NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, and CNN begin to parrot a narrative, the truth often is found in simply believing just the opposite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Put another way, the media\u2019s \u201ctruth\u201d is a good guide to what is abjectly false. Perhaps we can call the lesson of this valuable service, the media\u2019s inadvertent ability to convey truth by disguising it with transparent bias and falsehood, the \u201cDoctrine of Media Untruth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Take the strange case of the respective records of liberal New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and Florida counterpart Ron DeSantis. Both states have roughly equal populations, with Florida slightly larger by about 2 million. Both have populations that travel daily back and forth between their respective major cities. Both are major international tourist and travel hubs. Both have widely diverse populations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both have large numbers of retirees and long-term-care homes. Yet, New York has suffered 14 times the number of coronavirus deaths as has Florida. Florida is now increasingly open, and on May 19 saw 54 deaths attributed to the virus. That same day, New York was completely locked down and yet saw nearly twice that number at 105 deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One would never know from the media of the contrasting fates of the two states during the epidemic.DeSantis is often rendered little more than a reckless leader who exposed Floridians to needless danger. Cuomo, in contrast, increasingly is deified by the media as likely presidential timber who finesses press conferences in the lively fashion of his legendary beloved father, and iconic liberal, Mario Cuomo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2020\/05\/24\/the-doctrine-of-media-untruth\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness As a general rule, when the&nbsp;New York Times, the&nbsp;Washington Post, National Public Radio, Public Broadcasting Service, NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, and CNN begin to parrot a narrative, the truth often is found in simply believing just the opposite. Put another way, the media\u2019s \u201ctruth\u201d is a good guide to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3dW","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7835,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/obamas-untruth-inc\/","url_meta":{"origin":12396,"position":0},"title":"Obama\u2019s Untruth, Inc.","author":"victorhanson","date":"September 9, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Let us count the ways: bald lies, lies of omission, mythography, amnesia, redaction . . . by Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Online We can usefully view the Obama administration\u2019s chronic untruthfulness as a sort of multifaceted corporation of untruth, with all sorts of subsidiaries. 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Military assets were unused due\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;September 2005&quot;","block_context":{"text":"September 2005","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/archives\/2005\/september-2005\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13222,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/eeyores-cabinet-1984-came-and-nobody-cared\/","url_meta":{"origin":12396,"position":4},"title":"Eeyore&#8217;s Cabinet: 1984 Came and Nobody Cared","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 25, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Private Papers No free society can long survive in such a climate of untruth when its media is an Orwellian ministry of truth, and the entire population is nursed on mendacity. We are now suffering through \u201cHunter\u2019s laptop\u201d psychodrama. 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