Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

When you're covering the deadliest pandemic in 100 years, doesn't it seem logical that most news about it would be negative?

 

But it went beyond that. Even here last summer any positive news was shot down in a torrent of insults. And irresponsible people like Eric Feigl-Ding jumped in headfirst and took full advantage of the doomcraze.

Follow the science? Fine. The scientific journals weren't nearly as negative.

 

We lost all nuance to news coverage in the pandemic. Of course there were negative aspects. It's a horrible disease with horrible outcomes. But when any tiny bit of good news is downplayed, that's a problem. And it was, especially on the nightly newscasts, where a lot of Americans still go for a quick hit of news. The grand majority of us don't spend all day on Twitter or on cable news.

 

It wouldn’t surprise me if RTExpress didn’t mind all the US deaths. Makes them weaker when dealing with the Rodina, after all.

 

Also, if going negative and trying to scold people into compliance saved even one life, it was worth it.

 

Ten European nations have a higher per capita death rate than the US. They found positive stuff to report.

 

As always, everything is the media's fault.

 

"Fault" implies something happened, and you're assigning blame.

As has been demonstrated, US national (not regional) coverage was an outlier in negativity. But it didn't "cause" anything to happen. We're stating an observation, not assigning blame for anything resulting from it.

Rick Stain went over this long ago talking about all the stories with "may" in the headlines, where the "may" was about some POSSIBLE negative thing that MIGHT happen (even if the chances were infinitesimal). THAT'S an example of overly negative reporting.