It's good to see @zeynep call out the flaws in mainstream Covid coverage (and there were/are many). But framing it as the result of "partisan polarization" & equating it in any way with the dangerous delusion & disinformation from the right goes too far.https://zeynep.substack.com/p/how-polarization-ate-our-brains …
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Replying to @zeynep
(I remain a big fan, but...) Your headline and your main theme enthusiastically assert that both sides have eaten their own brains. I don't think the caveat at the end gets you off the hook. There really is almost no comparison, but you made it.
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Replying to @froomkin
Thank you! I feel like I'm examining one piece of a puzzle in a newsletter, and make that clear at top and the bottom. On the almost "no comparison": on some things (like muzzling the CDC) I agree. On other things like closing parks? What's the measure? Level of harm? Dynamics?
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Replying to @zeynep
Yes, there have been mistakes aplenty, and we need to learn from them. You are a treasure that way. But I do maintain that by any measure, the damage is incomparable. So I'm not comfortable with the "both sides" framing which was central to that particular piece.
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Replying to @froomkin
I think we're going to disagree if that was a both sides framing (I just wanted to write part one of a three part article focusing, admittedly, on one side) and just noting the lack of equivalence as sufficient. :-D Thank you for the feedback, though.
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I always appreciate the feedback! Especially *critical* feedback (as it is so obviously easy to become blind to one's own slant/emphasis). :-D Thank you!
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