Hey @cnn.com and @megtirrell.bsky.social, do you think maybe Important Context ought to get a “first reported by” on this story about the NIH town hall walkout?
We had it—with video—like a week before you guys. We’re a smaller, indie outlet but our story traveled.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/26/health/nih-town-hall-walkout
We had it—with video—like a week before you guys. We’re a smaller, indie outlet but our story traveled.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/26/health/nih-town-hall-walkout
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Let me just say the NIH had not a goddamn thing to do with the pandemic other than contain it.
The Fourth Estate is dead.
Long live the Fourth Estate.
Or: We want you on that wall. We need you on that wall. :)
Now all these pieces are coming out and citing it like a CNN scoop. It’s not.
That’s why it hurts us when we break news and bigger outfits swoop in and ignore our contributions.
So we can keep scooping bigger outlets and not getting credit.
But CNN got the video footage—which we had already published.
Clade X Pandemic Exercise: Segment 1 - May 18, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/embed/sJ1x8SlNxj0
https://www.youtube.com/embed/-4xiQHv4Y20
Clade X Pandemic Exercise: Segment 3 - May 18, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/embed/QeRAb5JE1Pw
Clade X Pandemic Exercise: Segment 4 - May 18, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/embed/tqa7NHq73xM