Magic + Loss

Magic + Loss

Tom Cotton never needed airtime

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Virginia Heffernan
Aug 25, 2021
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To those who stake an argument about liberal media bias on the premise that reporters were too woke and afraid to cover the compelling "lab leak hypothesis":

1. They did cover it.
2. It wasn't that compelling. 

Early in 2020 NYT killed a story about the hypothesis by Don McNeil but not because it validated the hypothesis.

It was called “New Coronavirus Is ‘…

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