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George Takei
@GeorgeTakei
Another study found that 90 percent of stories about famine and war are also negative, which coincidentally represent the other two Horsemen of the Apocalypse besides Pestilence and Death, which Covid-19 pretty much already had covered.
Rep. Jon Hardister
@JonHardister
A study at Dartmouth finds that media coverage on #COVID19 has been nearly 90 percent negative, much more negative than scientific data justifies. Media should focus on straight, objective reporting, not hyperbolic negativity. We can do better than this.
Faux pas
(14,582 posts)Aristus
(66,075 posts)Does the virus need advocates for less-negative coverage?
TexasTowelie
(111,288 posts)Your representative may be next on the visit list.
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)The coverage of covid has been too negative.
Well since we have 575,000 dead and half the country thinks its a hoax i would say it hasnt been negative enough.
And exactly what POSITIVE stories had there been up until Biden took office and tried to get things on track?
Like zero good news in a year by my book.
But whatevs.
BigmanPigman
(51,430 posts)I know that when I watch him he will piss me off at least 30% of the time. He even said he is a Libertarian. I have to remind myself of this. The both sides-ism is pretty tiresome.
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)I still watch him.
But he does grate in my nerves.
wnylib
(21,146 posts)just for the few times that he is genuinely funny. He was good at ripping the former guy, but evrryone was since the former guy practically wrote the script for comedians.
But Maher preens too much and pauses so expectantly that he reminds me of a child performing for parental approval. His ego spills out all over.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,059 posts)Tanuki
(14,893 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,430 posts)athenasatanjesus
(859 posts)Biophilic
(3,477 posts)MissMillie
(38,452 posts)how Rep. Hardister would spin half a million deaths, millions of lost jobs, people losing their homes...
George Takei is a treasure
Hekate
(90,189 posts)IronLionZion
(45,255 posts)and when numbers improve in some regions, there will be positive coverage, like fewer deaths or fewer new cases.
bluboid
(559 posts)thank you, George!
& thank you, DU, for creating a forum for truth.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,149 posts)to have less negative coverage, which I suspect would appal him:
1, 2020. Eighty seven percent of stories by U.S. major media outlets are negative in tone versus
fifty percent for non-U.S. major sources and sixty four percent for scientific journals. The
negativity of the U.S. major media is notable even in areas with positive 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. As evidenced by most viewed and most
shared major media readers in the U.S. and U.K. strongly prefer negative stories about COVID-
19, and negative stories in general. But the U.S. major media is more willing to satisfy this demand
for negativity in both COVID and pre-COVID years. We suggest that this American
exceptionalism stems from the lack of fair and balanced media laws and a lack of a large public
option in the U.S. media. The causal impacts of this negative COVID coverage are less obvious;
counties in the U.S. that rely more heavily on the major media are as likely to re-open schools as
other similar counties.
https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.dartmouth.edu/dist/4/2318/files/2021/03/Why-Is-All-Covid-News-Bad-News-3_22_21.pdf
SergeStorms
(18,882 posts)I challenge Hardister to come up with something positive about 600,000 dead from this fucking virus. 🤬
world wide wally
(21,718 posts)They are doing everything humanly possible to promote it. No vaccines. No masks. No social distancing. Rah Rah, Covid!
DENVERPOPS
(8,677 posts)The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse for some years now.........
tclambert
(11,080 posts)Wait, 10% of the media coverage was positive? Who out there is siding with Covid?
llmart
(15,499 posts)Does this guy even grasp how stupid his comment is?
So sorry the media isn't hiring cheerleaders to have a token board where every time someone dies she can flip the number over and everyone can jump up and down and go "Yeah" Rah, rah Covid.
What the ever living fuck. I've heard it all now.
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JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,282 posts)That'll cheer everyone who's been feeling down about a half million deaths in this country.
czarjak
(11,191 posts)BobTheSubgenius
(11,535 posts)Kudos to Mr Takei, as always.
Second. Perhaps this oh-so-perceptive Rep could offer up some positives? Even a dispassionate report of the most plain facts is going to seem pretty negative, just by its very nature.
Perhaps there is a neutral take on awful death in huge numbers, and billions and billions of dollars flushed away, but I don't see it. It's all-round bad news, isn't it?
muriel_volestrangler
(101,149 posts)and than academic articles. But it suggests that publicly-owned media and fairness doctrines are what keep other countries' media more aligned with academia, which I think a Republican won't want.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,535 posts)C Moon
(12,188 posts)to feed their mentally inept followers.
This one gets an award for stupidity from me.