On Sunday, we wrote that media coverage shows that the media are setting themselves up as the absolute standard for what is factual and correct in an age of coronavirus.  They're doing this despite the incredible rapidity with which information changes in this coronavirus era.  Moreover, their hatred of Trump is so overwhelming that they're discounting everything he says, even though he is relying on input from the nation's top scientists and doctors — and regularly allows those scientists and doctors to speak at his press conferences. We went on to note the supreme irony behind this attitude, which is that people in the media are often spectacularly uninformed and suffer badly from innumeracy.  Ben Rhodes, whom White House insiders described as "the single most influential voice shaping American foreign policy aside from Potus himself," had a clear-eyed view of the American media: "The average...(Read Full Post)