there, but i think president trump deserves some of the negative chris it is criticism and coverage he received. some of course is way over the top and a lot of it was politically motivated and the democrats used it as a call and jewel against him to beat him and they did it so successfully, but i find it interesting now that president biden is sort of getting a bit more magnanimous, let s not play the blame game and credit trump a little for the vaccines. it might be easy to do that when you are the guy taking the arrows and when your body count in covid is higher than the last guy in the media is criticizing biden because i think they mishandled this in some ways, but the volume, the tenor is nowhere close what it was under the previous president. howard: quick thoughts? i think it s one of the ironies of donald trump s presidency that is both responsible for getting the united states the best vaccines in the world, getting them quickly, but then he was also responsible for sort o
vaccinated. also, on top of the it s a story and something to talk about on tv and makes them more reliable relatable to their viewers and it s something we have seen since the beginning when chris cuomo fully documented his covid experience in his basement. it s become a story that people share over the christmas table, what their experience was with covid. i know our family did as multiple people in our family got it and talked about it. seems like another segment and way to share information, public service, but also to be relatable. howard: for each of you on this question, some of the omicron coverages oh my god this is terrible and others, it s not that big a deal, is the media spreading confusion with the mixed messages, emily? absolutely, and i think again even the people that the media is supporting on and when you are sort of taking information from sciences and from the medical field, that speaks to how split that even is. even journalists as they try to take that message
look at this great governor of new york doing the opposite things of trump, so pro- science, good at communicating and when it turns out he had a huge scandal on his hands involving covid, something they still play down and they didn t really want to address that and they certainly shut it off to the site until after the election and then the walls started to cave in and the whole thing collapsed on andrew cuomo. howard: and of course the political scandal led cnn to fire chris cuomo for two aggressively helping his butt brother. gillian turner, was the media to an outward of andrew cuomo when he was the emmy award winning covid briefing governor and was that a major factor in your view in maybe some of these organizations hoping the whole story would go away until more women came forward with serious accusations? in my view, this was a classic example of the media choosing to cover her style over substance and it happens all the time. the media became