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FTA: "In case you missed it, earlier today I wrote about an infuriating tweet from New York Times editor Mara Gay in which Gay deliberately shortened a quote President Trump made during a morning conference call with governors regarding the (Chinese) Wuhan coronavirus outbreak.
Gay’s tweet made it sound like Trump told the states that they were “on their own” when it came to obtaining the vital supplies they need to fight the virus. What she left out, though, changed the entire context of that quote:"
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"Fortunately, people like writer Stacey Lennox exist in this world to cut through all the media hype and hysteria in order to give us the straight up skinny on what’s really going on.
On Monday morning, Lennox took to the Twitter machine and wrote an 8-tweet thread that gave some critical background on the administration’s efforts"