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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsVox: Sean Hannity linked to Coronavirus.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/4/22/21229360/coronavirus-covid-19-fox-news-sean-hannity-misinformation-deathThe Velveteen Ocelot
(115,869 posts)GopherGal
(2,010 posts)But it bends toward justice.
SWBTATTReg
(22,171 posts)MontanaMama
(23,337 posts)I view these people as dangerous cult members. They have no qualms about killing.
SWBTATTReg
(22,171 posts)You could see H react when Koppel said this too. I loved it! Koppel is a true newsman. H is an ambulance chaser.
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)mahina
(17,705 posts)Including me, dont want to click links we dont have to.
Thanks heaps.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,858 posts)At the time, Hannitys show was downplaying or ignoring the virus, while fellow Fox host Tucker Carlson was warning viewers about the diseases risks.
Using both a poll of Fox News viewers over age 55 and publicly available data on television-watching patterns, they calculate that Fox viewers who watched Hannity rather than Carlson were less likely to adhere to social distancing rules, and that areas where more people watched Hannity relative to Carlson had higher local rates of infection and death.
Greater exposure to Hannity relative to Tucker Carlson Tonight leads to a greater number of COVID-19 cases and deaths, they write. A one-standard deviation increase in relative viewership of Hannity relative to Carlson is associated with approximately 30 percent more COVID-19 cases on March 14, and 21 percent more COVID-19 deaths on March 28.
As a play on words from a Seinfeld episode:
Sean Hannity now, insanity later.
crickets
(25,983 posts)it really should be harder to get away with deliberately misleading people regarding a public health matter as serious as COVID-19.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,869 posts)Hannity is just sneaking out the back door of the theater instead of shouting fire when he sees that there is one.
crickets
(25,983 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,869 posts)there's no fire in the theater and they can go right in.
Permanut
(5,650 posts)I think it would be downright friendly and supportive of Hannity to show up at every protest and shake hands with all the participants. Just to show solidarity, you know.