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Weekly Alert: May 9, 2020 Due to technical difficulties with our email service, there was no Weekly Alert last weekend, so here are the stories FAIR has been working on for the last two weeks. Please help us spread the word by forwarding this email to friends and by sharing our stories on social media like Facebook and Twitter.   Are People Getting Sick Staying Home Alone? That's Not What a Misinterpreted Survey Said New York State Tries to Suspend Democracy; NYT and WaPo Shrug NYT's 'Real Coronavirus Death Toll' Is Anything But Gov. Hogan’s Purchase of Korean Covid Tests Looks Like a PR stunt—and Media Fell for It Guardian Blames Trump’s Murderous US Exceptionalism on Hugo Chávez  Why It's Wrong (and Racist) to Blame Covid-19 on Chinese 'Wet Markets' Newspapers Won't Connect the Dots on Postal Service Threats There's No Reason to Turn Airtime Over to Trump's Deceptive Coronavirus Campaign Rallies Media Washes Hands of—and With—Boris Johnson It's Crucial to Distinguish Between Can't and Won't—With a Million Lives at Stake Corporate Looting as 'Rescue Plan,' Robber Barons as 'Saviors' A Pandemic Is Not a War By 'as Successful as Most Other Nations,' NYT Means Sweden Is 10th Worst in the World Is Kim Dead? Your Guess Is as Good as Western Media’s Rhode Island Only Looks Like It Has a Bad Covid-19 Outbreak Because It Has a Bad Covid-19 Outbreak As Covid-19 Forces Emission Reductions, Media Offer Oil Industry Elegies Both Sides-ing Bleach Injection Most recent episodes of FAIR's radio show CounterSpin: Ricardo Salvador on the Food System & Covid-19 Jim Naureckas on Coronavirus False Choices, Peter Maybarduk on Pharmaceutical Price-Gouging Latest CounterSpin Transcript: 'We Can Pool the World's Science to Develop Better Medical Tools' 'There's a Perceived Need to Get This Over With So We Can Get Back to Work' 'The Industry Chose to Protect Billions of Dollars a Year in Its Own Profit' 'There Are People Dying and Suffering Because They Can't Get Healthcare' FAIR Cites: Anatomy of Media Lies About the Death of Kim Jong-un    FAIR’s ad-free, content-rich site is supported by contributions from our loyal band of media activists. Please donate today! FAIR's Website     FAIR/Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting 124 W. 30th Street, Suite 201 New York NY 10001 USA