Frivolity
So the UK has its own Tucker Carlson, in the shape of Toby Young. Last January he got caught telling a whopper about the virus.
The Daily Telegraph must publish a correction over a “significantly misleading” column written by Toby Young, press regulator Ipso has ruled.
The July 2020 article claimed the common cold could provide “natural immunity” to Covid-19 and London was “probably approaching herd immunity”.
But on Thursday Ipso found the paper had “failed to take care not to publish inaccurate and misleading information”.
About a pandemic that kills.
I still find it hard to believe that people happily spout off on medical issues in ways that encourage people to catch a lethal virus, for the sake of politics or attention or laughs or all three.
He’s still doing it.
They’ve spent decades tolerating the uncritical promotion of homeopathy and acupuncture, within the health care system. Seems a lot of media consider ‘health news’ to be the domain of little puff pieces.
Oh, that asshole.
I still remember when the producers of Top Chef decided to bring him on as a judge for one of the early seasons. This was back when Simon Cowell was on American Idol, and I think they thought, “we’ll get a snarky British guy, too!”
He was awful. It was so clear that he wrote a bunch of “witty” one-line putdowns in advance and then waited for a chance to spew them out at Judges’ Table, and had nothing else to contribute. And just a horrible fit for the show, because Top Chef isn’t about shitting on the contestants. Thankfully, they replaced him after a season or two.