Brian Lilley: The fact is, there wasn’t much need to put pressure on traditional media companies, which seemed determined to quash any view they disagreed with. In this country, the media, which often portrays itself as standing up to authority, mostly demanded government’s take more power for themselves, impose ever stricter lockdowns and mandates.
Anyone, media figure or expert analyst — including several doctors — were portrayed as radicals for objecting to lockdowns without evidence or mandates that violated civil liberties. Even as governments began to relax restrictions, it was often reporters and prominent voices in the media demanding they keep restrictions in place or strengthen them.
Rarely were there demands for evidence that the measures being taken were effective or backed up by science. The federal government especially wasn’t scrutinized on their measures.
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