Posted on 12/17/2020 9:29:01 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
“Why Is All COVID-19 News Bad News?” is a working paper by Bruce Sacerdote, Ranjan Sehgal, and Molly Cook recently published by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).
The authors found that media coverage of COVID-19 has been much more negative in the U.S. than in international media. They found, “Ninety one percent of stories by U.S. major media outlets are negative in tone versus fifty four percent for non-U.S. major sources and sixty five percent for scientific journals.”
COVID-19 is a serious matter, but that doesn’t explain the negativity. The authors found, “Media negativity is unresponsive to changing trends in new COVID-19 cases or the political leanings of the audience.” Fox News is almost negative as CNN. “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.” Media coverage has been impervious to good news....
(Excerpt) Read more at intellectualtakeout.org ...
Strange title that really doesn’t do justice to the article, which is really interesting and has a lot of good citations.
Great article, stupid opening sentence:
“The authors found that media coverage of COVID-19 has been much more negative in the U.S. than in international media. “
Maybe because our numbers are worse than the most of the world’s? We are #12 in deaths per million, #8 in cases per million, and #1 in absolute number of cases.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
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