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Re:Coronavirus and Credibility by Nuzzerino on Monday April 06, 2020 @01:45PM (#22795918)
Are you sure? I saw a different video where media outlets of all types were saying similar things. The infamous deleted "Vox" tweet where they said it would not be a deadly pandemic, for one example.

I don't think linking a partisan outlet singling out a partisan outlet from the opposite side of the isle is a good way to treat this issue. PG apparently doesn't either, and didn't name names.

Source: https://i.imgur.com/Tn0UtWT.png

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Re:Coronavirus and Credibility by hangphyr on Monday April 06, 2020 @02:00PM (#22796114)
Many news media companies have been engaging in just that, trying to point out (hypocritically) where their competitors attempted to downplay the threat of the virus. It's not so much a problem with news media being wrong, it's a problem with most of them skewing towards pundit commentary and OP/ED's on the news, rather than just reporting the news.

If the news media blankly reports what is happening, and avoided adding layers of interpretation on top of it, their reputations would be in better shape right now.

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Re:Coronavirus and Credibility by dominotw on Monday April 06, 2020 @02:12PM (#22796237)
> OP/ED's on the news

What the stance of opinion pieces. ppl seem to say opinion articles cannot be judged because they are opinions by definition. I find that infuriating but i have to bite by lip and agree.

eg: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22697313

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