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Even beyond the obvious Covid paradoxes, there were more times the press defied the press in the press.
While journalists and news outlets love to claim they are holding people accountable in their reporting, one detail always overlooked is their own accountability. Those who hold judgment are above being judged, goes their thinking. This leads to odd results frequently, such as when the press manages to defy the very mandates they have called to be imposed on others.
It never fails to amuse when the self-appointed authorities cannot keep their own positions straight and, throughout the past year, there have been numerous instances where the media managed to contradict their own positions. These experts in all fields have no hesitation in delivering stern lectures to us, the uneducated rabble. What exposes them as much as anything else is when they are shown to be ignoring their own rules, or worse taking a position that is entirely out of phase of a prior