The news media sounded the alarm on coronavirus for months — but few listened. Why?
Posted on AllSides March 29th, 2020
From The Center
Since the COVID-19 outbreak began in Wuhan, China, journalists at the biggest U.S. news organizations have diligently reported on the many dangers posed by its rapid spread.
Yet even as entire states — like California and New York — shut down, many Americans still don’t believe that the coronavirus is as big a deal as the news media has made it out to be. A poll conducted in mid-March found that only 56 percent of Americans consider the coronavirus a “real threat,” and that 38 percent believe that it has...