Credit to the above article for my contention that the coronavirus is a media driven event. Maybe a hoax, maybe not, but likely not even close to being as significant as the media portrays. One of those: Never let a crisis go to waste events.
“Yellow Journalism” goes back to at least the 1890’s, and likely earlier, just under another name.
USA and international media long ago stopped providing “news” to their audience.
The media ALWAYS has a ‘sky is falling’ event to over-hype and sell more of their product. In many cases, the media driven events lead to increased government interference (more TAX DOLLARS!!) or restrictions on freedom. Sometimes these media events are used by governments to go to WAR. (Whereupon they draft our sons to fight in far off lands). IMHO, of course.
I’m looking back to William Randolph Hearst as the real originator of yellow journalism; he instigated the Spanish/American war by false reporting about the battleship Maine.