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Originally Posted by irv
Nah, this panic/epidemic isn't politically motivated at all.  LMAO |
Nor does it have anything to do with problematic media representation of anything.
That part is a lot more disturbing than anything else.
There were eight new cases reported in China yesterday. 8. No zeros. And that was back page news at best (you had to dig up something online that a Honolulu newspaper picked up from Bloomberg news to even have much chance of finding it at all):
https://www.staradvertiser.com/2020/...or-first-time/
This is great news that sheds much more light on how the virus might spread (or, in this case, stop spreading). So why was it not a story from major news outlets yesterday and today? Obviously because it's not something that keeps people's eyes glued to the screen. Panic sells; subduing any of the panic doesn't.
These things are so blatant that it's hard to imagine anyone could downplay how the media spins their news (especially about the virus recently) and the negative impact that can have on society, economically and otherwise