Media laughs at Christian leader's death but silent on vax deaths

The Cotton Mathers in the media rejoiced today in the death of a man they consider a sinner.

The Washington Post headlined it, "Marcus Lamb, head of Daystar, a large Christian network that discouraged vaccines, dies after getting covid-19."

NBC reported, "Anti-vaccine Christian broadcaster Marcus Lamb dies at 64 after contracting covid."

CBS reported, "Marcus Lamb, head of televangelist network that spreads covid misinformation, dies of covid 19."

The CBS headline is misinformation. The story said he died of diabetes. Given his age and co-morbidity, he likely should have taken the vaccine, but it was his decision.

Compare that headline to this CBS headline, "Colin Powell, first black secretary of state, dies at 84 from covid 19 amid cancer battle."

That is fairer and more accurate because he was vaccinated. Lamb's vaccination status is not publicly known, but the media implied he wasn't. OK. That's news. But if you are going to mention the vaccine status of one group, mention the vaccine of the other. Leave it up to the readers and viewers to decide. When Roger Ailes ran Fox, its motto was We Report, You Decide.

That is journalism. These Cotton Mathers should try it and leave the blogging to us.

These itty bitty headline writers and the like get to feel self-righteous about a man who spread the word of the Lord and saved thousands if not millions of souls. Televangelists are an easy target. A few are phonies, and Satan got to Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye.

And the media that mocks them does the devil's work.

But when critiquing the media, you have to review not only what they say but what they don't say. And WaPo, NBC, CBS, and the rest don't say much about vaccinated young people keeling over and dying. They are rare but they are enough to cause concern.

Local media reports on such cases occasionally.

For example, Clark County Today reported on November 15, "Seventeen-year-old Washington female dies from heart attack weeks after receiving second Pfizer vaccination."

The story, which did not name her, said, "A 17-year-old female from Washington died from cardiac arrest 36 days after having received her second Pfizer vaccination. She becomes the third known person found in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) to possibly have died from a covid-19 vaccine. According to information in the report, she had recovered from a symptomatic but not severe case of covid-19 in August."

Hmm.

Might she have been better off trusting natural immunity?

Vaccines are medicines and we must be careful taking medicine. I avoid annual flu shots and rarely take an aspirin. I turned down a prescription for statins. On the other hand, I have for 22 years taken a daily medication for one condition and I am vaccinated against covid. My body, my choice.

The vaccines were supposed to go only to the most vulnerable groups. Biden's mandate that everyone be vaccinated is loony and will not stop the spread of the virus any more than masks and social distancing did.

Marcus Lamb deserved more in death than the chortling from the Fourth Estate. He was not a sinner. He was a man who questioned taking experimental vaccines. He wanted more proof that they work. Questioning what we assume is called science.

Enjoying his death from diabetes is called evil.

But trashing a Christian who got covid only accelerates the fall of Corporate Media.

Writing about Chris Christie's book which bombed -- selling only 2,289 copies after weeks of fawning interviews -- John Nolte noted, "Christie’s failure to sell his book is also one more lesson in the corporate media’s fading influence. After all, it wasn’t only Christie who failed to sell copies; it was also the once-mighty media behemoth." 

Hunters of witches beware. Cotton Mather paid a price for his witch hunts. Harvard passed him over as president when his father, Increase Mather, retired from the post.