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Is the News Media Overreacting to the Coronavirus?

March 16, 2020, by Sissel McCarthy, News Literacy Matters

It may feel like a constant cascade of news, but the coverage is proportional to what could be the biggest global health crisis in more than a hundred years. And when you consider how much more globally connected we are now than during the flu pandemic of 1918, and how much the world economy relies on precisely that connection, it’s arguable that this crisis could prove to be even worse. READ MORE.

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