[JPKab]

I stopped trusting the media's reporting on covid when it became blatantly obvious that they were completely ignoring and obfuscating the risk stratification by age. It was clear to me that they were motivated to do this by elevating the desire to influence the behavior of the public over the duty to inform them with the actual facts.

They cynically assumed, just like the public health authorities did, that if the average Joe didn't personally feel at risk, they wouldn't change their behavior and would cause high-risk/elderly people to die out of negligence. Academics, I've noticed in my career working with them, are far more prone to view the public in this way. I'm sure a few of that variety will respond to this and tell me that yes, they can't be trusted.