Matt Yglesias: The media really did screw up the lab leak story
John Sexton May 26, 2021 5:00 PM ET
Yesterday Jonathan Chait wrote a pretty good summary of how the media messed up the lab leak story early last year. The Washington Post’s fact-checker also published a timeline which attempted to tell the same story. Chait’s piece was good and the Post’s timeline was less so, mostly because it minimized how the Post itself helped launch the crusade against the idea.
In any case, today Matt Yglesias wrote his own summary of the media history of this story which I think is the best one I’ve seen so far. Yglesias says it appears it all started with these comments from Sen. Cotton.
https://twitter.com/SenTomCotton/status/1222962874932453377more
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2021/05/26/matt-yglesias-the-media-really-did-screw-up-the-lab-leak-story-n392807
