{"id":3499,"date":"2020-07-07T09:30:27","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T16:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=3499"},"modified":"2020-07-07T21:05:55","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T04:05:55","slug":"democrats-attack-san-diego-city-council-candidate-noli-zosa-for-saying-mainstream-media-have-sensationalized-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=3499","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Attack San Diego City Council Candidate Noli Zosa for Saying Mainstream Media have Sensationalized Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Written by Nicholas Vetrisek<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">San Diego City Council candidate Noli Zosa was recently attacked on Twitter by journalists and Democratic activists in response to comments he made during a virtual town hall with State Assembly candidate June Cutter.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zosa stated in the town hall that he believed that the media have sensationalized the crisis because ratings are &#8220;through the roof.&#8221; Ratings are <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baynews9.com\/fl\/tampa\/ap-top-news\/2020\/07\/01\/hot-news-cycle-leads-cnn-to-best-ratings-in-40-years\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">undoubtedly up<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> due to the pandemic, but Democrats on Twitter proceeded to attack Zosa for his comment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">San Diego Democrats for Equality President Ryan Trabuco attacked Zosa with a particularly dishonest series of tweets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/RyanTrabuco\/status\/1277658275798937605<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the town hall, Zosa never said that the coronavirus pandemic was a hoax. He merely stated that he thought the virus was sensationalized<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and that the crisis is being overblown by some.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Voice of San Diego<\/em> CEO and Editor-in-Chief Scott Lewis also did not appreciate Zosa&#8217;s comments regarding journalism.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Really dislike this, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZosaNoli?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ZosaNoli<\/a>. Journalists are getting laid off left and right. Cutbacks in major broadcasters, public broadcasting and newspapers. Nobody wants this to go on. Ratings != revenue for most operators. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/koJ9MpLpAp\">https:\/\/t.co\/koJ9MpLpAp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Scott Lewis (@vosdscott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vosdscott\/status\/1277661857264726016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 29, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zosa was clearly referring to mainstream news outlets that have profited exorbitantly from fear-mongering click bait\u2014not local publications. Obviously, the massive ratings boost that has been received by cable news is unlikely to trickle down to local news. When Stephen Puetz pointed this out, Lewis offered a cynical retort suggesting he doesn&#8217;t believe that Zosa was referring to mainstream media sources.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Is he?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Scott Lewis (@vosdscott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vosdscott\/status\/1277676342666915840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 29, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Voice of San Diego<\/em> may be struggling but for Fox, CNN, and MSNBC, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/live-feed\/tv-ratings-cable-news-has-record-setting-second-quarter-1301220\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">business is booming<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. This is what Zosa was explaining and due to how obvious it is that this is what he was referring to, it\u2019s hard not to see Trabuco and Lewis\u2019 comments as anything other than intentional misrepresentation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even if Zosa\u2019s premise is wrong, which can\u2019t necessarily be proved either way, his facts are still correct. Even if the situation is getting better, the mainstream media have no reason to report accurately given that this crisis has provided their best ratings ever.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Nicholas Vetrisek San Diego City Council candidate Noli Zosa was recently attacked on Twitter by journalists and Democratic activists in response to comments he made during a virtual town hall with State Assembly candidate June Cutter.\u00a0 Zosa stated in the town hall that he believed that the media have sensationalized the crisis because&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1930,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Democrats Attack San Diego City Council Candidate Noli Zosa for Saying Mainstream Media have Sensationalized Coronavirus - 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