That bookworm page had some clever memes. I’m definitely sharing some of those with friends.

Self-Therapy: Weekly Google Hangouts/Meets with co-workers who I consider friends and non-worker friends and family. Add in scotch and whiskey.

Goals: Reading upon different therapeutic modalities.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/04/one_heck_of_a_dishonest_report_from_60_minutes_on_the_medical_mask_shortage.html

You are her hero because of who you are, and you can pull through this together.

“…i will keep posting till i cant post…
the best will be my posting i found something!!!”

Looking forward to seeing that post!

As for clever people — there is no end to them.
Here’s the latest from Bookworm Room, where you can find several “galleries” of meme art; and the Babylon Bee never disappoints.

https://www.bookwormroom.com/2020/04/09/bookworm-beat-4-9-20-the-coronavirus-memes-are-getting-angry-illustrated-edition/#comments

http://www.bookwormroom.com/category/illustrated-editions/

Pauley and Phillips Dateline – fake but accurate – in the pre-internet days, they could get away with it. Dan Rather still contends his letter about GWB was genuine.

Both were eye-openers about the magnitude of fake news being foisted on the public (cue Gell-Mann again) because the viewers either never hear the debunking, believe the apologies, or flat out don’t care: “If GM wasn’t guilty of that offense, they were probably guilty of something just as bad.”

The question of why “somebody didn’t see this coming” and set up home studios – that is curious, isn’t it?
Couple of possibilities: it couldn’t happen to them because they’re special; they believe their own fake news half the time (the half that claimed the virus was no big deal, which alternates with the half that claims Trump is killing us all by not becoming the total dictator we’ve accused him of being since he won the election); there really isn’t anyone in the news organization leadership who has two brain cells to rub together.

I’m going with “all of the above.”

Dateline aired an episode about reported spontaneous explosions and fires in General Motors trucks. I saw the episode when it aired and was amazed that they actually caught an instance on film. Well, GM was amazed also, and did some investigation and was able to prove that technicians working for Dateline had rigged the whole thing using pyrotechnics strapped to the truck.

I was such a believer in the integrity of journalists that, when the truth became public I anxiously awaited the next episode of Dateline. I knew the hosts, Jane Pauley and Stone Phillips would be outraged that an NBC employee had staged the fire. I honestly thought they both might quit the show on the air.

That week’s episode aired and it was just a normal show. Then, finally at the end, Pauley and Phillips read a brief apology obviously crafted by someone else and then a commercial and that was it. Next week, they were both on the air with a new episode like nothing had ever happened. Pauley and Phillips didn’t seem at all upset, or disgusted, seemed like they may have even known about it. NBC didn’t demote them. It had no impact on their careers.

That’s when the scales fell from my eyes. I started researching and found documentation of how my blue collar hero, Michael Moore had staged footage in, “Roger and Me,” along with lists of the movie’s many lies.

I grew up reading the great, Mike Royko in Chicago and just assumed all journalists were like him. I now understand he was a rare exception.

Me too. They asked a professor of surgery if they could do a program on how young surgeons are trained. He gave them free rein of the hospital, a famous teaching institution in New York, up state. When the program aired it was about “Ghost surgery,” in which the patient did not know who the surgeon was assuming it was the professor. No mention of the truth and the “patient” was a hospital employee who lied. The Chief Resident at the time told me the story.