March 17, 2020

 I speak with investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson
about the good, the bad and the lazy COVID-19 news coverage. On
the good front, the observations of former network affiliate news
director Bill Shory. R Street harm reduction researcher (and
former AIDS researcher) Chelsea Boyd discusses the science of
testing and social distancing. How should Trump frame Biden and
vice versa. I'll handicap the POTUS matchup with Washington Free
Beacon editor Matthew Continetti. Italian tenor Maurizio Marchini
offers another serenade of Florence (this time from Rigoletto) to
lift the spirits of his compatriots. I'm taking the advice of Dr.
Fauci and Dr. Birx but also George Carlin and Mel & Max
Brooks. It's not okay for Matt Colvin to arbitrage hand sanitizer
but it is okay for NYC Mayor de Blasio to suggest nationalizing
hand sanitizer producers? And, no, Farhad Manjoo, we're not all
socialists now.


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