But compare how some precincts of “the media” handled coverage of the lab-leak theory with how most of “conservative media” handled: The COVID outbreak The efficacy of hydroxychloroquine The results of the 2020 election The events of January 6, 2020 And not just “conservative media,” but huge swaths of the conservative movement itself. The same people who are screaming and pounding the table about “the media” being too dismissive of the lab-leak theory—and then correcting their mistake with self-criticism—insisted that it was impossible that half a million Americans could die from COVID. They just asked questions about hydroxychloroquine. They maintain, even today, that the 2020 election was a hotbed of fraud. And they equivocate every which way on who did what, and why, when it comes to 1/6.