The news media sounded the alarm on coronavirus for months — but few listened. Why?

Posted on AllSides March 29th, 2020
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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...

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https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/03/the-news-media-sounded-the-alarm-on-coronavirus-for-months-but-few-listened-why/

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