January 13th, 2022 10:05 AM
On Wednesday, Hot Air Senior Editor Allahpundit reported on the Associated Press instructing its editors to downplay case counts in COVID stories and observed: “If this is their way of trying to hide the bad COVID news from the public in order to help Democrats, they’re waaaaaay too late.” The news service explained: “The Associated Press has recently told its editors and reporters to avoid emphasizing case counts in stories about the disease.”
While acknowledging flaws in the case count numbers, Allahpundit noted: “…they remain our best indicator of the magnitude of the surge, however imperfect they might be.” He added: “It’s curious that a news agency would prefer to omit information entirely from its reports than include it with caveats about what the numbers aren’t able to capture.”
Read the full article on Hot Air.
