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How has Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor's incorrect statement that "we have over 100,000 children, which we've never had before, in serious condition and many on ventilators" been covered on television news? The timeline below shows total mentions of the statement across CNN, MSNBC and Fox News through January 9th, showing that CNN was the first to mention the statement, followed by Fox News and then MSNBC, but that Fox News covered it far more than its peers.
Fox News has mentioned the statement far more than its peers.
Looking at the shows that have mentioned the statement the most, personality-driven shows dominate.
Looking at the total seconds of airtime in which the statement was displayed somewhere in the onscreen text, Fox News has displayed it for 6.2 minutes to date, compared with just 19 seconds on MSNBC and just 9 seconds on CNN.
[An earlier version of this post misinterpreted Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla's English. It seemed like he was sowing doubt about the safety of his own COVID shots. Instead, he was alluding to a "safety profile" issue regarding his competitor's current shingles vaccination (Shingrix is made by Pfizer competitor GSK and it has 90% market share), which he claimed can be solved with mRNA.]The Pfizer chief appeared on Squawk Box this morning after the company announced several agreements in the fields of gene editing, with the hopes to use these technologies to bolster the mRNA platform for their COVID shots.
Comment: The Mail dutifully follows the party line with it's dismissive portrayal of the group, while completely ignoring the issues that brought them together. Still, one might wonder if Alpha Men Assemble isn't a Brit-style government honeypot, similar to the Oathkeeper and 3%-er groups in the U.S. What better way to flush out malcontents than to give them some hope of agency for change?