{"id":1166127,"date":"2021-12-28T17:04:41","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T22:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1166127"},"modified":"2021-12-28T17:04:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T22:04:43","slug":"it-flipped-overnight-glenn-greenwald-points-to-the-one-moment-that-changed-the-pandemic-and-destroyed-trust-in-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/it-flipped-overnight-glenn-greenwald-points-to-the-one-moment-that-changed-the-pandemic-and-destroyed-trust-in-media\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It Flipped Overnight\u2019: Glenn Greenwald Points To The One Moment That Changed The Pandemic And Destroyed Trust In Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fit-flipped-overnight-glenn-greenwald-points-to-the-one-moment-that-changed-the-pandemic-and-destroyed-trust-in-media%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1166127&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Journalist Glenn Greenwald said in a Tuesday Twitter thread that there was one single moment that changed media coverage of the coronavirus pandemic \u2014 and that when it \u201cflipped overnight,\u201d it destroyed trust in media.<\/p>\n<p>The death of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/biography-of-george-floyd-to-be-published-next-year-highlighting-his-relentless-struggle-to-survive-as-a-black-man-in-america\/\">George Floyd<\/a> \u2014 at the hands of former Minneapolis police officer <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/derek-chauvin-closing-in-on-plea-deal-with-fed-prosecutors-could-include-public-explanation-of-george-floyd-arrest\/\">Derek Chauvin<\/a> \u2014 and the massive protests it inspired prompted a near-180 turn from multiple media outlets that had just spent the previous weeks telling Americans that the only patriotic thing to do was stay home to stop the spread of the virus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a pivotal moment in the pandemic\u2019s history,\u201d Greenwald began. \u201cFor 4 months, the message was clear and unrelenting: everyone must stay home. Those who leave \u2013 even to go to a deserted beach \u2013 are reckless sociopaths.&nbsp;It flipped overnight to endorse a mass protest movement liberals liked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This was a pivotal moment in the pandemic\u2019s history:<\/p>\n<p>For 4 months, the message was clear and unrelenting: everyone must stay home. Those who leave \u2013 even to go to a deserted beach \u2013 are reckless sociopaths.<\/p>\n<p>It flipped overnight to endorse a mass protest movement liberals liked: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SJUIz0dbOw\">https:\/\/t.co\/SJUIz0dbOw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ggreenwald\/status\/1475825263732834306?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 28, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Greenwald shared a tweet from June of 2020, just days after video of Floyd\u2019s arrest and subsequent murder went viral, showing the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-declares-racism-a-public-health-crisis-diverts-10m-in-covid-funding\/\">media pivot<\/a>: \u201cNow some public health experts are broadcasting a new message: It\u2019s time to get out of the house and join the mass protests against racism,\u201d Politico reported at the time.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Now some public health experts are broadcasting a new message: It\u2019s time to get out of the house and join the mass protests against racism <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RNPChRWCku\">https:\/\/t.co\/RNPChRWCku<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 POLITICO (@politico) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/politico\/status\/1269449023649452032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 7, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat episode single-handedly destroyed trust in public health officials, proving they\u2019d politicize their expertise when convenient,\u201d Greenwald continued, referencing experts who had joined media broadcasts to argue that systemic racism and police brutality posed greater health risks than the rapidly-spreading virus. \u201cCorporate media celebrated a douchebag-lawyer shaming families at deserted beaches, then \u2014 overnight! \u2014 cheered densely packed street protests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">That episode single-handedly destroyed trust in public health officials, proving they\u2019d politicize their expertise when convenient.<\/p>\n<p>Corporate media celebrated a douchebag-lawyer shaming families at deserted beaches, then \u2014 overnight! \u2014 cheered densely packed street protests. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DvOzIr5JX8\">pic.twitter.com\/DvOzIr5JX8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ggreenwald\/status\/1475826586423369743?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 28, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Multiple outlets ran with the narrative that \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2020\/08\/27\/906002043\/racial-inequality-may-be-as-deadly-as-covid-19-analysis-finds\">structural racism<\/a>\u201d was more deadly to black Americans than COVID could ever be \u2014 even as others continued to complain that COVID appeared to impact <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/08\/26\/health\/racial-inequality-death-rate-covid-19-wellness\/index.html\">communities of color<\/a> more than it did primarily white communities.<\/p>\n<p>And that, according to Greenwald, was precisely the narrative he was asked to support even as he was writing a breakdown of the media\u2019s reversal on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn June, I was drafting an article on this flagrantly politicized reversal of COVID messaging. When @theintercept editors learned this, they commissioned an article \u2014 for the same day \u2014 to argue racism, not COVID, was the greatest health crisis, so everyone *should* go protest,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">In June, I was drafting an article on this flagrantly politicized reversal of COVID messaging. When <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theintercept?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@theintercept<\/a> editors learned this, they commissioned an article \u2014 for the same day \u2014 to argue racism, not COVID, was the greatest health crisis, so everyone *should* go protest. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/22RjUrlVK2\">pic.twitter.com\/22RjUrlVK2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ggreenwald\/status\/1475827520914268161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 28, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs usual, elite institutions \u2014 media, government, public health authorities \u2014 love to whine about the refusal of the public to trust their pronouncements, complaining people turn to other less credentialed and worthy sources,\u201d Greenwald concluded. \u201cBut they *never* ask what they did to cause this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">As usual, elite institutions \u2014 media, government, public health authorities \u2014 love to whine about the refusal of the public to trust their pronouncements, complaining people turn to other less credentialed and worthy sources.<\/p>\n<p>But they *never* ask what they did to cause this.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ggreenwald\/status\/1475827865409183748?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 28, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Greenwald ultimately left <a href=\"https:\/\/greenwald.substack.com\/p\/my-resignation-from-the-intercept\">The Intercept<\/a> \u2014 which he cofounded in 2013 \u2014 several months after the George Floyd protests began, saying that the outlet had censored his articles about Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden, and the president\u2019s past dealings with China and Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journalist Glenn Greenwald said in a Tuesday Twitter thread that there was one single moment that changed media coverage of the coronavirus pandemic \u2014 and that when it \u201cflipped overnight,\u201d it destroyed trust in media. 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