US media coverage of coronavirus skews overwhelmingly negative compared to international sources: St

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US media coverage of coronavirus skews overwhelmingly negative compared to international sources: Study

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/us-media-coverage-of-coronavirus-skews-overwhelmingly-negative-compared-to-international-sources-study

Research shows U.S. media outlets have covered the coronavirus pandemic far more negatively than international media sources, irrespective of any positive developments on vaccines or declining case numbers.

“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 perfecent for scientific journals,” reads the working paper’s abstract. “The negativity of the U.S. major media is notable even in areas with positive scientific developments including school re-openings and vaccine trials. Media negativity is unresponsive to changing trends in new COVID-19 cases or the political leanings of the audience.”

The paper, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research last week and written by Dartmouth College scholars Bruce Sacerdote and Ranjan Sehgal along with Brown University’s Molly Cook, analyzed over 20,000 news reports from the 15 top U.S. media outlets and 39 international sources. Overall, they conclude that “U.S. major media outlets are much more negative” when publishing similar stories to “non-U.S. sources.”
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The researchers also found that negative stories about President Trump and the pandemic were much more likely to be published than stories about positive developments or the benefits of measures aimed at slowing viral spread.

“U.S. major media stories that discuss the benefits of social distancing or alternatively the benefits of mask wearing are less numbers than stories about President Trump not wearing a mask,” the researchers wrote. “Similarly, the terms ‘Trump and hydroxychloroquine’ receive more media coverage than do all stories about companies and researchers developing vaccines.”

Covid "news" coverage was filtered through Orange Man Bad. Finding the vaccine progress information not reported is fairly easy ... I've been doing it for months, and if I can do it in my spare time "news" "professionals" could do it even easier .... if they wanted to.