Media-Driven Fear Warped Our COVID Response | National Review

Thank you my friend MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D. for posting the National Review perspective by john Fund

I concur with the top-line 'Reporters ignored good news, mangled the facts, and stoked panic — and some people (but probably not reporters) will pay for it with their lives and livelihoods.'
FDR's off used quote seems appropriate IMHO So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror,” said President Franklin Roosevelt in his inaugural address in 1933, at the bottom of the Great Depression
There’s been an unrelenting torrent of bad news about the coronavirus. It’s a pandemic, so you’d expect downbeat coverage."

Here is Bill Gates cheerleader for lockdowns :-(

Bill Gates: It’s ‘Appropriate’ to Keep Bars and Restaurants Closed Longer
'Bill Gates says that while the coronavirus vaccine rollout is good news, the United States is going to have to endure a longer stretch of businesses (restaurants and bars) being closed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42dU8jX--G4


The National Review is an upstanding news outlet IMHO.

"But a new National Bureau of Economic Research paper says the media here in the U.S. went too far and created a climate of fear and even panic. In a paper entitled “Why Is All COVID-19 News Bad News?” scholars from Dartmouth College and Brown University analyzed the tone of COVID-19-related news articles written since January 1.
They found a big difference in the way the elite U.S. media covered the pandemic compared with media in other countries:
“Ninety-one percent of stories by U.S. major media outlets are negative in tone versus 54 percent for non-U.S. major sources and 65 percent for scientific journals,” the authors concluded. “Stories of increasing COVID-19 cases outnumber stories of decreasing cases by a factor of 5.5 even during periods when new cases are declining.”

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The difference between our media and the rest of the world was amazing but of course, ours had an ulterior motive...

Thank you!