The vile media on all matters Trump

E. Ablorh-Odjidja

April 26, 2020

Folks in faraway places like Ghana are likely to hear that Trump has recommended the “injection of disinfectant” as a cure for COVID-19, the China Virus.  

That statement peddled by the media is not true.  But the news broke after a press conference held at the White House on April 22, 2020.

Did Trump even ask people to “inject disinfectant” for a cure?  For evidence check the video of the conference as it happened.

This was what took place during that press conference.  But the false news of CLOROX or LYSOL injection is being spread on local and overseas airways.  

For example, The Washington Post wrote, “Trump’s comment prompts doctors and Lysol to warn against injecting disinfectants.”

BBC said, “Disinfectant firm warns after Trump’s comments.”

These were examples of immediate news interpretations.  But how are these statements fair, balanced and objective, and even responsible expositions from a news perspective?

From my point of view, these interpretations are not only inflammatory, but they are childish, playground renditions of what Trump said.  However, if you knew the politics of the liberal media and all matters about Trump, you would not wonder for long.

This reportage, from a true journalistic perspective, is vile.  It is one that only a politically corrupt press could bring to the world.  A little common sense from the average reader or viewer could cut through the nonsense.  

 Given the context, everything Trump said about the science and cure of the China virus at this press conference was speculative and not declarative.  

At the conference, William N. Bryan, the acting undersecretary for science and technology at the Homeland Security Department, presented three active areas of scientific research done by his department.

After him, President Trump took to the podium to speculate on points raised in Bryan's earlier report. And here is how it went:

First, on sunlight.  Exposure to sunlight is a quick killer of the virus.  

Second, UV light, as a detergent, is a killer of the virus on surfaces and the environment.  

Third, disinfectants are potent killers of the virus on EXTERNAL SURFACES.  

All the results reported were for usage on external surface areas.  And the key act in Trump's presentation was to focus on the UV light result, this time introduced or administered internally.  It was purely speculative.  But the media had no use for this angle as the news story.  They only had the wish to damage Trump in mind.

President Trump's first sentence began, “Supposing we brought the light inside the body….”  And ended with speculation on the possibility of USING UV light internally in the human body, as a possible "disinfectant" for or cure.

And the response from the media, the BBC for example, “Disinfectant firm warns after Trump’s comments.”  There was no mention of the product CLOROX, yet this was the word the press brought home to its readers and viewers. What a lame intellectual response to what was said!

In the context of the above, it was the press that recommended CLOROX, not Trump.  The vile media couldn't understand that an English sentence that began with the word "supposing" was meant to be speculative.  For the all-knowing media what followed became instantly a declarative statement!  Again check the video of the conference as it happened.

The possibilities of new cures and newer technologies for the UV light internal cure were already happening.  Except the media didn’t care.  But they were vile enough to twist the story (injecting disinfectant) to hurt Trump, even if it meant killing thousands with untruthful statements.

Trump was all about inquiry and ought to have been noted as speculation.  But the “intrepid” reporters had no time for curiosity.  And not enough courage to probe further into UV light research, regarding its future application in medicine.  In this instance, they were afraid to know that the result may help Trump.

But there was real scientific research going on about this possible use of UV light for internal usage, and the report was ready to burst on the medical scene; exactly as Trump had speculated:

Aytu Bioscience, a firm based in New Jersey, had announced its findings on the UVC light, as it related to COVID-19, two days before Trump's press conference.

The report said “Just yesterday we announced an exclusive global license from renowned research hospital, Cedars-Sinai. With this license, we secured worldwide Rights to a medical device platform that has the potential to become a novel treatment for COVID-19 …This treatment is a medical device called Healight…

“This technology utilizes Ultraviolet light, specifically UVA light to eradicate pathogens in a very specific way. .."

The Healight is placed “in small areas like the upper airways where the Coronavirus primarily resides. ….. Once positioned in the tube, the series of LED lights emitting a specific narrow band of UV-A light will illuminate for a specified time at a specific wattage. Preclinical work has already been completed …. The results are encouraging and demonstrate safety and effectiveness in these models."

In short, Trump the idiot either knew or was prescient enough to be aware of the new find and alert the world about the UV discovery.  

The vile media, whose duty it was to bring out such findings, either didn’t know or didn’t care. Trump was the target.  The new knowledge to help mankind didn’t matter. 

But to combine or shift speculations on UV light to mean “injecting disinfectant” into the human body, as was done, is serious journalism malpractice. 

Exposure of the UV Healight invention truthfully would have brought substance or validity to Trump and perhaps, had given some hope.  But it didn't matter.  Only the search to destroy Trump mattered.  So, the report on something that was not said!  

But we already know now that the media's approach to anything Trump has always been intensely political and so far never a journalistic or scientific quest. 

For those who may be wondering, there has been no better occasion to illustration the above point than this particular episode involving reportage on COVID-19, the China Virus.

There is no hiding this fact.

Thus, The Washington Post commented recently with glee, “The rise and fall of Trump’s obsession with hydroxychloroquine.” April 24, 2020.  

Wouldn't it have been a Godsend, if hydroxychloroquine did help if used as early as was recommended?  

The Washington Post was happy to depend on a result of an FDA test on the drug on victims at the end stage of Covid-19.   

Washington Post downplayed in the piece the effectiveness of the same drug at the early stages of the disease in “perspective control” trials worldwide.  

The Parisienne Paper interviewed Professor Didier Raoualt on March 22, 2020, a renowned French epidemiologist and he said, “We knew about the potential effect of Chloroquine on cultured viral samples. It was known that it was an effective antiviral. … When we added azithromycin to hydrochloroquine, in treating patients suffering from Covid-19, the results were spectacular.”

Didier Raoult's team would later announce that they treated 700 patients with hydroxychloroquine, with only one death.”

President Trump had previously recommended the hydroxychloroquine approach and he was loudly condemned as an idiot.

A prominent Michigan state Rep. Karen Whitsett tried the hydroxychloroquine drug and was cured.  She went to the White House to thank Trump for promoting the drug.

For appreciation, The Washington Times wrote, “Michigan Democratic faces censure vote over support for Trump,” was the result. Not surprisingly, Democrats did not congratulate their state representative for surviving COVID-19. Neither did the media.  No hopeful message came from either source.

In the media connection to the Trump/COVID story, the meanness has become more obvious than a want for a cure.  

In contrast, check presentations of Democrat Governor Cuomo of NY State to the media at similar press conferences.  You would notice the bliss that settled on everything Cuomo said.

Regretfully, as recent as April 2020, Cuomo carelessly ordered elderly COVID-19 patients recovering at hospitals to be returned to their respective nursing homes, which order resulted in a spike in death counts at nursing homes in the state.

 “The state Department of Health reported that 3,505 people in nursing homes and adult care facilities had died,” a jump of 1,135 fatalities shortly after the order. Politico wrote, April 22, 2020.

NY nursing home death report came on the same day Trump was said to be ordering or suggesting “disinfectant injection.”  But Cuomo was a hero that day and Trump was the villain.  The irony couldn’t be missed.  But the media came in on cue.

And, of course, the manufactured news on “injecting disinfectant” went viral.  The thousands of deaths due to Cuomo's negligence didn't.  And not a single reporter in the media has had the nerve to confront Cuomo on the matter.

How this modern media, one to be presumed as more thoughtful, smarter, and honest on all issues than Trump, can peddle so much distortion and nonsense and still be believed is a matter that will remain astounding to history.  Again, for evidence, check the video of the conference as it happened.

E. Ablorh-Odjidja, Publisher www.ghanadot.com, Washington, DC, April 26, 2020.

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