Covering Trump’s coronavirus response, major newspapers barely mention that he fired pandemic experts in 2018

Five major American newspapers — The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Los Angeles Times — have largely ignored President Donald Trump’s firing of “the government’s entire pandemic response chain of command” in 2018 in their print coverage of his administration’s response to the novel coronavirus outbreak over the past two weeks.

Source: Covering Trump’s coronavirus response, major newspapers barely mention that he fired pandemic experts in 2018 | Media Matters for America

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