Media’s hypocrisy on China protest reveals ugly double standard for US citizens

Kudos to the New York Times (and other elite organs of journalism) for their full-court press on covering the courageous protests in China against Xi Jinping's insane "zero COVID" policies and for the sympathy they've mustered for average people suffering under an oppressive yoke. But where was this nuanced understanding when North America's own mad COVID overreaction was in full swing? Nowhere in evidence. In April 2021, for example, the Times' Max Fisher was suggesting people uncritically accept future lockdown measures in the United States and western Europe and obliquely praising them as conducive to a "desire to cope by…