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Folks - there is a certain reason why "journalism" is starting to be more heavily scrutinized in a time where we elect people like our current administration (that news media dedicated countless hours to covering).
We're in a pandemic crisis and we're seriously scrutinizing and asking questions about how the surgeon general referred to safety standards? Or what we call the virus? Or some supposed internal joke of what someone in the administration called it but can't name whom supposedly said it (Kung Flu)?
Journalism has really sunken to total complete lows. I used to have an ounce of respect for PBS, but now they have gone full blown stupid too. I'm sorry but journalism needs some kind of certification - whereby similar to things like Bar association for lawyers that the certification can be revoked because these people shouldn't have an ability to ask such dumb questions while in the media spotlight. Keep stupid childish shit like that for an Infowars equivalent site.
We're in a pandemic crisis and we're seriously scrutinizing and asking questions about how the surgeon general referred to safety standards? Or what we call the virus? Or some supposed internal joke of what someone in the administration called it but can't name whom supposedly said it (Kung Flu)?
Journalism has really sunken to total complete lows. I used to have an ounce of respect for PBS, but now they have gone full blown stupid too. I'm sorry but journalism needs some kind of certification - whereby similar to things like Bar association for lawyers that the certification can be revoked because these people shouldn't have an ability to ask such dumb questions while in the media spotlight. Keep stupid childish shit like that for an Infowars equivalent site.
Surgeon general under fire for 'offensive' comments
Surgeon General Jerome Adams is under fire for 'pandering' to the black community and for his 'offensive' instruction to stop drinking and smoking during this pandemic.
www.dailymail.co.uk
Surgeon General Jerome Adams has been met with outrage by the black community for using phrases like 'abuela', 'big momma' and 'poppop', while pleading for minorities to not drink or smoke and follow the government's guidelines to slow the spread of the coronavirus .
'We need you to do this if not for yourself than for your abuela. Do it for your granddaddy, do it for your big momma, do it for your poppop,' the nation's top doctor said Friday at the daily coronavirus taskforce briefing - while also advising those groups to 'avoid alcohol, tobacco and drugs.'
Adams told Americans of color that they need to 'step up' to stop the spread of coronavirus, and said 'social ills' are likely a contributing factor when looking at the dire statistics that the outbreak has killed twice as many black and Latino people than white Americans. Now members of the black community are calling out the Surgeon General for 'pandering' to them with his use of slang and also for his 'offensive' instruction that those specific communities to stop drinking and smoking during this pandemic.
Adams was met with immediate push back for his comments later in the briefing when PBS NewsHour's Yamiche Alcindor asked him to respond to those who might have been offended by his colloquialisms.
'We need targeted outreach to the African-American community and I used the language that is used in my family,' Adams said. 'I have a Puerto Rican brother-in-law, I call my granddaddy "granddaddy" I have relatives who call their grandparents big momma.'
'That was not meant to be offensive,' he added. 'That's the language that we use and I use and we need to continue to target our outreach to those communities.'
PBS NewsHour's Yamiche Alcindor asked Adams to respond to those who might have been offended by his colloquialisms during the briefing