Politics
After Ohio State and the rest of the Big Ten Conference revealed it was postponing the 2020 college football season, the New York Times immediately started framing the issue as harming Trump’s reelection chances in November.
In its August 12 piece entitled, “Ohio State Football Is Canceled. Will Trump Take the Struck?,” the paper’s opening salvo went right for Trump’s throat.
” The Big 10 Conference’s decision to cancel its football season resounded throughout Ohio, where the Buckeyes’ football program looms big. Some citizens blamed President Trump’s handling of the infection,” the paper composed for its teaser paragraph.
After presenting the discouragement some in Ohio had more than the cancellation, the paper added:
‘ Trump just blew it,’ Mr. Kuchta stated, alluding to President Trump’s mismanagement of the coronavirus pandemic. ‘He just didn’t manage it. He could have shut things down for 5 or six weeks and determined what he was doing, however he never ever had a strategy.’
Naturally, there is a psychological disconnect for anyone attempting to pin college closures and sports cancellations on Trump. After all, Trump has been the loudest voice not to shut things down, not one advising to go ahead with shutdowns.
This sort of misconstruction is a perfect example of how the media has misguided America throughout the COVID-19 hysteria. In another example, the Washington Examiner just recently noted that because of what they see in the media, the majority of Americans believe that 20%of the country has actually had it and that 9 percent of the country has died from it. In truth, 168,289 have actually passed away according to the main numbers. Though the saturation of negative media coverage has actually led Americans to believe it has actually been far even worse than it is.
In any case, the Times continued to frame the Big Ten’s shutdown as a strike against Trump with the apparent hope that the end of college football will harm the president in crucial battleground states consisting of Ohio, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.
The paper gladly estimated ESPN radio host Paul Finebaum, who said he hoped the scenario would redound severely on Trump.
” As fantastic as politics is– it’s a sport that so lots of people delight in seeing– it’s not as crucial as college football in Ohio, in Georgia, in Alabama,” Finebaum said on the air according to the Times “And without it, people will be lost, and individuals will be mad. There are layers of blame to walk around, and in the end, this goes beyond sports.
” We don’t have a day that does not pass where somebody does not call and blame the president. Even from the South, I’ve heard more anger directed at the president than I believed,” Finebaum added.
The Times went on to report that Trump and other crucial Republican politicians went on a short campaign to try and persuade college sports– especially football– to resume their video games. However, how can it be Trump’s fault that the left-leaning universities that do not support Trump or Republicans overlooked these entreaties? Of course, they are doing the opposite of what Trump suggests. How could anyone blame Trump for this?
However, as the piece starts wrapping up– and after the Times actually spent more than 1,000 words assigning the blame strongly on Trump, the paper adds, “It’s far from clear just how much assistance, if any, Mr. Trump may lose due to the fact that of the lack of college football.”
So, after investing 1,000 words saying everyone is blaming Trump, the paper concludes stating they don’t actually know how lots of might be blaming Trump? That’s journalism?
Lastly, after reading this 2,000- word screed, one can not get away the awareness that the word “science” does not appear a single time in the article.
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