*His take on the NYTimes, where he used to work, is especially noteworthy,* *as is the role of Elon Musk in Amazon's reversal.*
*MCM* *From Alex Berenson:* *Professor Miller,* *I believe Amazon is censoring more widely than is realized. That is certainly true of COVID-19 books, * *which it is refusing to sell through KDP [Kindle Direct Publishing] as a matter of course. I'm not sure * *what would happen **to **traditional publishers, who presumably would have more leverage. But KDP is * *such an important **platform and so many books are self-published now that even KDP-"only" censorship * *is significant.* *I don't really think it's about Big Pharma (which I covered for the Times). So far, the pharma companies * *have not really benefited from COVID, with the relatively minor exception of Gilead and remdesivir. I think * *the vaccine issue will be big - that market will be in the tens of billions, at a minimum, and I suspect the * *companies and public health authorities are going to work together to press employers to require employees * *to get vaccinated (there are already public signals of this). I am NOT an anti-vaxxer - I am vaccinated, my * *children are vaccinated, my wife (a physician) is vaccinated. But getting vaccines that have been around * *for decades or generations for diseases that have serious mortality or morbidity for children or young adults * *is very different than what we're proposing for COVID.* *No, I think this is a very strong effort by the public health establishment to beat down any questions about * *the efficacy and side effects of lockdowns, an effort abetted and even driven by places like the Times. Nearly * *the entire media is on board here, and the issue has become incredibly politicized. When I worked for the Times, * *it leaned left, but it was basically center-left, a voice of the establishment, and the bias was more in the story * *selection than anything else. Reporters were expected to (and did) write with relative objectivity, avoid snark * *and opinion, make sure they gave the subjects of articles or the targets of investigations a chance to respond. * *We knew the rules and we basically followed them. Didn't mean we couldn't write strong investigative pieces * *(I wrote plenty), but we didn't have politics on every page. That's gone now.* *Having noticed that his book is now available, both in Kindle form and in traditional print, I followed up* *with a question about how that happened. His reply:* *They reversed themselves because of the outcry, and specifically Elon Musk. It is available.* https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/04/elon-musk-calls-for-amazon- split-after-alex-berenson-claims-censorship.html. -- If you appreciate News From Underground, please consider making a donation — either a one-time gift or a monthly subscription: http://markcrispinmiller.com/support/ Thank you for your support. Ways to unsubscribe: 1) send a blank email to [email protected] PLEASE NOTE: you must unsubscribe using the SAME email with which you subscribed 2) go to http://groups.google.com/group/newsfromunderground and click on the "Unsubscribe or change membership" link in the yellow bar at the top of the page, then click the "Unsubscribe" button on the next page. For more News From Underground, visit http://markcrispinmiller.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "News From Underground" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/newsfromunderground/CAGxB6W9V9UpBjDfu1RSSQSjWVydbKe9g19wKgnsLKb0Mq8gXoQ%40mail.gmail.com.
