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Related: About this forumThree minutes on Ebola worth watching on Chuck Todd's MTP. Really!
Chuck Todd and Meet The Press finally put on a substantive program that showed a few rays of what good journalism could look like. The discussion on Ebola was mostly substantive. There were a few instances where political reporters showed their lack of objectivity and journalistic decency however. The experts effectively squashed their flawed reasoning.
Chuck Todd had two unbiased experts on the show. Laurie Garrett is a Pulitzer prize-winning science journalist/writer and Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Dr. Gabe Kelen is Professor and Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Johns Hopkins, Director of the Johns Hopkins Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response (CEPAR), and Director of the Center for the Study of Preparedness and Catastrophic Event Response (PACER).
Early on Chuck Todd showed an important table that put Ebola into context. Ebola as an actual killer in America is rare compared to many other diseases, activities, and natural events that should give American much more concern.
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/19/1337711/-Three-minutes-on-Ebola-worth-watching-on-Chuck-Todd-s-MTP-Really
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,869 posts)Cirque du So-What
(25,988 posts)seeing that others with more impeccably partisan credentials have that niche market sewn up. Naaah! Past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior, and he's definitely a GOP flack - despite this rare departure from flogging GOP talking points to the hilt.
BeyondGeography
(39,382 posts)Like regularly true, for all MSM Beltway servants who weren't born that way and could still see the light. Thank you all the same for that flight of fancy.
Cirque du So-What
(25,988 posts)Toad knows which side his bread is buttered on. He won't go against the agenda proscribed by his corporate overlords.
BeyondGeography
(39,382 posts)And it invariably does.
A Simple Game
(9,214 posts)when the start of the holiday shopping season is just around the corner. Can't have all those people staying home and not spending money for Christmas. Wouldn't surprise me if all of the talking heads and Republicans turn down the rhetoric.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)kneck and neck with motor vehicle accidents, no wonder we regulate motor vehicles so much, they are dangerous as weapons.
Bortman33
(102 posts)they are still holding up the nomination of the Surgeon General on their directive from that murderous organization called the nra.
A Simple Game
(9,214 posts)I was just at my Cardiologist last week, would have been nice if he had mentioned it!
jehop61
(1,735 posts)when he put on the politicians who were allowed to spew right wing talking points. I.e. Sen Blount said its Harry Reids fault we don't have a Surgeon General.
Warpy
(111,355 posts)are nurses, especially ICU nurses, family who have people coming in from West Africa, and undertakers.
We really don't know a lot about this virus at this point, but it doesn't seem particularly easy to catch.
However, I don't see this outbreak going away in West Africa. People who have recovered from it can pass it on as an STD up to three months later. West Africa will have to hope that the vaccine now undergoing limited trials is safe and effective.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)In 2009, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 67% of all homicides in the U.S. were conducted using a firearm.[5] According to the FBI, in 2012, there were 8,855 total firearm-related homicides in the US, with 6,371 of those attributed to handguns.[6] 61% of all gun-related deaths in the U.S. are suicides.[3] In 2010, there were 19,392 firearm-related suicides, and 11,078 firearm-related homicides in the U.S.[7] In 2010, 358 murders were reported involving a rifle while 6,009 were reported involving a handgun; another 1,939 were reported with an unspecified type of firearm.[8] High-profile assassinations such as those of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and the Beltway sniper attacks involved the use of rifles, usually with telescopic sights, from concealed locations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_States
KoKo
(84,711 posts)from Emergency Room...? The Flub Up of Texas Presbyterian Hospital in communications and the issue of WHY was that Black Man from Liberia turned away that night with antibiotics for his symptoms?
And, did he get into why no other members of that family have come down with Ebola when he was vomiting and having diarrhea in a Two Bedroom Apartment with Children and other family members there in close quarters? How many 2BR Apartments have Two Bathrooms? Do we know if that apartment did and he knew to just use the one bathroom and warn others away from him? Do those other family members have some immunity, that he didn't have, since they had to have contact with him when he was symptomatic since he vomited on the sidewalk before they took him by ambulance to the hospital? He was already having symptoms when he went to hospital the First Time.
What about the Ambulance Drivers? Where are they and why haven't they come down but only the two nurses who treated him? The guy who cleaned the vomit from the sidewalks without Hazmat Suit. Is he still okay?
So many questions. But....did Texas Presbyterian turn him away because he had No Insurance? And, if Ebola is so deadly why is it that those in constant contact with him when he was so ill and vomiting and the rest not come down with it...but, only the two nurses when he was under treatment in the hospital. No others from the Emergency Room so far.....and yet great Panic in the Media has come of this.