Jan. 22, 2021 10:23 am
The Washington Post released a new article this morning on how Joe Biden is addressing an ‘array of crises’ as he finds himself in a ‘wartime’ footing:
President Biden raced Thursday to show he was addressing the array of crises awaiting him on his first day in office, issuing executive orders aimed at combating the coronavirus and preparing measures to take on the struggling economy and other problems.
Biden and his team found themselves immediately on what the president called a “wartime” footing, describing fighting the coronavirus as “a national emergency.” Against an already calamitous backdrop of a pandemic that has left more than 408,000 Americans dead, an additional 900,000 people filed new unemployment claims last week, underlining a devastated job market.
CNN anchor Jake Tapper faced intense backlash Wednesday for questioning the patriotism of Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla., an Army veteran and double amputee, after Mast opposed President Trump's impeachment.
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Western media outlets have done some important reporting in recent years, shining a light on the Chinese Communist Party s myriad human rights abuses. But there s another strain of journalism that glosses over these abuses and bizarrely lionizes the regime, too often buying into and promulgating Beijing s propaganda. Axios recently published a piece exploring how China won 2020. Answers may include unleashing a pandemic on the world, lying about it, using economic extortion to help cover it up, engaging in ethnic cleansing and forced labor at state-run concentration camps, and crushing democracy in violation of international law. China is not tired of winning, it seems, and some journalists appear to be eager water-carriers. Then there s this offering from The Economist, which drew hackles across social media: