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World News See other World News Articles Title: Sputnik Scoops the Daily Mail In the Anglosphere’s increasingly globalized media landscape different publications naturally seek out their own specific market-niches. The New York Times promotes the official narrative of the establishmentarian mainstream, though larded these days with an increasingly irritating dollop of “wokeness.” The Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal provide the most authoritative daily business reporting, as well as news coverage that is generally more sober and less skewed than that of the Times. And London’s Daily Mail has doubled- down upon its tabloid roots to attract enormous worldwide traffic by covering stories too “hot” for its more staid rivals, or presenting these same events in a much more populist and candid fashion, rather than sanding off the rough edges. The Mail‘s journalistic strategy has been extremely successful, and an outlet once obscure to everyone outside the British Isles has been transformed into a global media powerhouse, attracting more than twice the traffic of the Washington Post and five times that of the Wall Street Journal, with its total readership sometimes approaching that of the Gray Lady itself. A perfect example of the Mail‘s boldness came a couple of weeks ago when it was the first and only Western media outlet to cover the remarkable public statements of Prof. Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University, a very high-ranking academic who had served as chair of the Lancet’s Covid commission. In May, he had co-authored an academic paper in the prestigious PNAS journal declaring that the Covid virus had clearly been produced in a lab, and calling for an independent investigation into its possible American origins. A few weeks later, he spoke even more plainly at a think-tank conference in Spain, and at the beginning of July a short clip of those remarks went super-viral on Twitter, attracting more than 11,000 Retweets and a million views: These public revelations by an establishment insider of such high standing surely deserved worldwide banner-headlines, but instead they were totally ignored almost everywhere in the mainstream media. However, the Mail broke this embargo of silence and its story quickly attracted a couple of thousand shares and over 1,800 comments: Covid leaked from an AMERICAN lab and not the notorious Chinese facility at centre of pandemic cover-up, claims top US professor described as ‘Xi propagandist’ Connor Boyd • Daily Mail • July 4, 2022 • 1,500 Words Back in February, the publication had also run an article presenting new scientific evidence that a crucial component of the Covid virus came from a sequence previously developed and patented years earlier by Moderna, a leading American biotech company. Although there was no evidence that Moderna itself had any direct connection with Covid, these explosive facts seemed to establish that the virus was indeed artificial and also suggested its American roots, so that story was shared some 36,000 times on social media: Scientists claim Covid virus contains tiny chunk of DNA that ‘matches sequence patented by Moderna THREE YEARS before pandemic began’ Connor Boyd • Daily Mail • February 23, 2022 • 1,200 Words The Mail has built its success by its adhering to a policy of getting there “firstest with the mostest,” focusing on the big stories ignored by the rest of the media and breaking them before any competitor. But late last week, the same Mail journalist published a long article on the origins of Covid that seemed to completely violate that rule: Did Covid emerge in notorious wet market after all? Scientists claim they’ve traced original infection back to Wuhan’s ‘ground zero’ – in discovery that challenges lab leak hypothesis Connor Boyd • Daily Mail • July 27, 2022 • 2,700 Words According to the article’s subtitle, “Two explosive new studies seem to tip scale back in favour of natural spillover despite lab leak concerns.” The academic papers described had demonstrated that the entire pattern of early Covid infections seemed to radiate out of the vicinity of the Huanan wet market and had no geographical connection with the Wuhan lab, which was located eight miles away. Such findings severely undercut the Lab-Leak Hypothesis, widely regarded as the primary alternative to the natural virus theory. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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