For John, BLUF: The Media has, after it overcame its aversion to President Trump's initial COVID-19 efforts, turned negative on the virus. Nothing to see here; just move along.
From Power Line Blog, by Blogger John Hinderaker, 29 November 2020.
Here is the lede plus one plus two:
Three professors, two from Dartmouth and one from Brown, have produced a paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research titled, “Why Is All COVID-19 News Bad News?” It focuses on the U.S. press, and its findings are disturbing . . .Quoting from the original paper: "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 percent for scientific journals." That is a lot of negativity.Why are “major” U.S. news sources so massively more negative than their international counterparts? I think the widespread hostility toward President Trump is the obvious answer. The fact that Fox isn’t much different from its left-wing competitors probably tells us more about Fox than about the American press in general.
But that isn’t the whole story. This NBER article suggests that the pessimism of major news outlets is a response to reader demand.
The NBER post notes that Fox News, once a major mainstay of the Conservatives movement, is now the same as other press outlets.
Hat tip to the InstaPundit.
Regards — Cliff
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