“It’s easy to dog the media. But stop for a second and reflect on everything we know thanks to the media — and often the media alone. It was Bloomberg’s Jennifer Jacobs who revealed Hope Hicks’ positive test, with President Trump disclosing five hours later that he and the first lady had COVID.”
“It was the media that exposed that the president and top White House officials knowingly downplayed the danger of COVID. It was Bob Woodward’s recordings for ‘Rage’ that capture Trump admitting he knew the coronavirus was deadlier than he publicly portrayed. It was the media that exposed the president’s fundamental misunderstanding of the facts around the coronavirus. It was Jonathan Swan’s ‘Axios on HBO’ interview in which Trump said about the loss of American lives: ‘It is what it is.’ It was the media that exposed the murkiness surrounding the president’s finances and private business dealings. It was the N.Y. Times’ Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig and Mike McIntire who finally exposed Trump’s tax data, showing he only paid $750 in federal income tax the year he entered the White House” – Axios.