Posted on 20 April 2020
The New York Times is quick to attack Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, but readily defends Communist countries' ways of handling contagious diseases, as on the front of Sunday’s New York Times, “G.O.P. Aiming To Make China The Scapegoat – Bid to Shift Blame Off Trump for Response.” (A guilty party cannot be a “scapegoat,” and China is undeniably guilty.) The same edition featured a front-page analysis by Donald McNeil Jr. hailing Cuba’s Communist dictatorship for its fight against AIDS. McNeil defended the regime’s...