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Originally Posted by cardsagain74
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 |
I was watching CP-24 up here yesterday and there was a conference with either Provincial or Federal health ministers.
The questions being asked and answered were all the doom and gloom type but legitimate questions nonetheless.
Anyways, once these were all answered, a lady in the audience asked a simple question about the recovering rates and how many people have survived this will no ill effects.
Before the health professionals/ministers could even answer, CP-24 broke from the info session and went to a "Breaking News" story about how the school boards, have yet again, rejected an offer from the gov't about their ongoing contract dispute.
We all have our opinions, and this could just be a coincidence, but this labor disruption has been going on for weeks now so I don't honestly know, considering the panic currently around covid 19, how they could break from such an important info session the moment this lady asked this question??
Things that make you go, Hmm.