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As much as I actively try to avoid 45’s innate tweets, I can’t — unless I eschew media altogether. This video helps explains how Fox News helped destroy jounalism. I've always argued social media (i.e. 45’s tweets, Covid19 conspiracies, antivacers, etc) has put the assault against journalism on steroids. Many who reject the adverse impact of social media, in general, and Fox News in particular say, "It does not change the way I think." That may be true, but for too many others is does. Fox smeared Hillary Clinton over Pizzagate and the use of an unsecured email server, and Trump was tweeting objectively outrageous ideas. Mainstream "journalists" dutifully covered all of it. Marginalising Clinton while raising Trump’s profile, legitimizing him as a candidate, and thrusting into the White House. Black people, more than anyone else, need journalists to cover issues that concern us. Twitter can not be our source of information. Platforms like Ebony/Jet did not die overnight. We lost them slowly over decades. the information the provided changed over the years. Articles like "The Negro in Literature Today" simply are not written in publications today (if anyone knows of one please share it). Even Ebony stopped writing articles like this choosing to focus more on celebrity and downplaying more substantive subjects. It is obvious true journalism simply can't function under our form of capitalism. The government will not use our tax dollars to do it, for the government is beholden to those who don't want us to have access to true journalism. Subscribe to a Black owned newspaper. Support Black owned media and journalism.

Excerpted from the opinion section of today's the Wall Street Journal. @Mel Hopkins are there any standards for truth and accuracy in opinion pieces. If the following is true that's crazy. On April 20 we put out a press release titled “Aytu BioScience Signs Exclusive Global License with Cedars-Sinai for Potential Coronavirus Treatment.” The treatment is called Healight, and it was developed by research physicians at the hospital’s Medically Associated Science and Technology Program. The technology, which has been in development since 2016, uses ultraviolet light as an antimicrobial and is a promising potential treatment for Covid-19. Aytu and Cedars-Sinai have engaged with the Food and Drug Administration to pursue a rapid path to human use through an Emergency Use Authorization. But hardly anyone noticed—until Thursday, when President Trump mused, “. . . supposing you brought the light inside the body . . .” My team and I knew the president’s comments could trigger a backlash against the idea of UV light as a treatment, which might hinder our ability to get the word out. We decided to create a YouTube account, upload a video animation we had created, and tweet it out. It received some 50,000 views in 24 hours. Then YouTube took it down. So did Vimeo. Twitter suspended our account. The narrative changed from whether UV light can be used to treat Covid-19 to “Aytu is being censored.” These days, politics seems to dictate that if one party says, “The sky is blue,” the other party is obligated to reply, “No, it’s not, and you’re a terrible human being for thinking that.” That leaves no room for science, in which the data speak for themselves, regardless of ideology, and only when they’re ready. Unfortunately, the visceral excitement of political conflict draws far more clicks and better ratings than the methodical world of science. Technologies like Healight, which if borne out through clinical studies may represent a viable way to kill coronaviruses, aren’t provided the clear-headed consideration they deserve but are instead flushed into the political mosh-pit of “us vs. them.”

Yeah the Nobel prize ... celebrating the accomplishments of other countries. I'm sure they are greatful. Dynamite, I thought the Chinese came up with gun power. Well thanks Sweden for the crude application of another country's discovery. I know I'm veing hard on those countries but I'm tired of them being held of as paragons of civilization. They would not have the livestyles they enjoy today without the U.S. They are good at sheltering our money.