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SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Woodward going on to not reveal Trump’s admission that Trump knew exactly how dangerous COVID was and was purposefully downplaying it until Woodward published his book on Trump couldn’t be anymore revealing of capitulation to power while claiming to speak truth to power.

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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
He was celebrated as a whistleblower for releasing it long after the news was worth more than court gossip.

The man is the poster child for why American major news media is absolute dog shit. We see the same pattern with Bush Iraq War fuck ups sat on through to 2005. And all the banking scandals squelched during the thick of the OWS protests. And the Theranos woman misdiagnosing hundreds of patients with her hoax machine while parading around as a business celebrity. And the Bitcoin scams hushed up until the biggest players had exited the market.

Whether it’s Bob Woodward or Micheal Lewis or Judith Miller, there’s a cast of these characters who exist to hoodwink people into thinking they have a free press.

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- SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  And the Theranos woman misdiagnosing hundreds of patients with her hoax machine while parading around as a business celebrity.
  
  Although, to be fair, this story has at least one comical bent. She was obsessed with those fucking dogs that she did absolutely nothing to care for. Combined with she didn’t just hoax her patients, she also hoaxed investors. My favorite is knowing at some point she was buttering up Kissinger while those dogs were dropping big steaming piles of shit in the same room. Kissinger nodding along, seriously, while dogshit smell permeates everything.
  
  It’s fucking comical how stupid some of the ostensibly smartest and most important people are.
  
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  - UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    Combine that with the fact that she didn’t just hoax her patients, she also hoaxed investors.
    
    That was the comedy angle. The tragedy angle is that the patients never able to sue, because it was impossible for them to determine if they’d been part of the faulty test group.
    
    Investors got their pound of flesh while folks who were actually harmed were left without recourse.
    
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