What's more, The Washington Post's "Fact-checker" Glenn Kessler openly admits that the establishment media's anti-Trump bias may have been behind their knee-jerk rejection of the theory, which the former president famously promoted.
Kessler excuses himself and his colleagues from doing their due diligence by saying that the lab leak theory "Often got mixed up with speculation that the virus was deliberately created as a bioweapon," which he finds preposterous.
Did the virus escape accidentally from the Wuhan lab - which was tied to the Chinese military - or was it intentionally released?
Kessler finally gets around to the real reason the media was so quick to dismiss the lab leak theory: former President Donald Trump.
Yes: 1%. No: 99%. He writes: "The Trump administration also sought to highlight the lab scenario but generally could only point to vague intelligence. The Trump administration's messaging was often accompanied by anti-Chinese rhetoric that made it easier for skeptics to ignore its claims."
Later in January, the Daily Mail and The Washington Times both published articles making the connection between the virus and the Wuhan lab.
According to Kessler, it was China's "Lack of transparency" and "Renewed attention to the activities of the Wuhan lab" that finally opened people's eyes to the possibility that the virus may have leaked from a lab where scientists just so happened to be studying it.
Saturday, May 29, 2021
Dubious Journalism: Major Outlet Admits Anti-Trump Bias Impacted Reports on COVID Origins
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