[Melian]

Experts from Dartmouth College and Brown University pored over tens of thousands of articles about the Chinese virus that were published over the past year and the vast majority of them pushed overwhelmingly “negative” narratives about the novel disease.

“The most striking fact is that 87 percent of the U.S. stories are classified as negative, whereas 51 percent of the non-U.S. stories are classified as negative,” wrote study authors Bruce Sacerdote, an economics professor at Darmouth; Ranjan Sehgal, also of Dartmouth; and Brown’s Molly Cook.

https://freedomfirstnetwork.com/2021/04/analysis-reveals-corporate-media-deliberately-pushed-covid-terrorism-fear-campaign?utm_source=econ

[lyby]

“The most striking fact is that 87 percent of the U.S. stories are classified as negative, whereas 51 percent of the non-U.S. stories are classified as negative,”

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Also from the article:

“New research from two Ivy League academic powerhouses shows that the mainstream media played a crucial role in ramping up fear and terror over the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19).”

I submit that is indeed the role of MSM: “ramping up fear and terror,” regardless of the covered topic. As my papa used to tell me, their sole purpose is to sell more papers.