[grc] Grc statement on covid?
generalrokoyura
generalrokoyura at gmail.com
Mon Apr 19 16:02:13 PDT 2021
I just caught the first few minutes of Gary Null's show on WBAI while driving away from the signal area. It made me so mad and disgusted that I wanted to crash the car in to a pole just to destroy the radio.In the first 5 minutes of the show, Null recited the usual litany of pandemic-denial conspiracy garbage talking.points, claiming that Covid deaths are "negligible", and that people are dying, instead, from "co-morbidities", that the World Health Organization is doing the bidding of Bill Gates, "the most powerful man in the world", that "tens of thousands of doctors" have signed on to a letter calling Covid a hoax, and that preventative treatments (including Hydroxichloroquin) are being denied or discouraged.He stopped short of recommending bleach injections, but he sounded like an artificially calm and articulate Alex Jones.Would there, perhaps, be value in the GRC issuing a collective editorial statement indicating that we take our collective public health responsibilities seriously and expressing a commitment to broadcasting accurate, verified information?My concern is that community radio stations be seen as beacons of sanity, not as magnets for fact-and-analysis-averse slepticism-junkies who might, on another day, be theatening public health.officials, or storming their places of employment.Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
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