{"id":4915,"date":"2020-03-16T13:54:07","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T17:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/?p=4915"},"modified":"2020-05-24T21:59:17","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T01:59:17","slug":"is-the-news-media-overreacting-to-the-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/2020\/03\/16\/is-the-news-media-overreacting-to-the-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the News Media Overreacting to the Coronavirus?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"246\" height=\"138\" src=\"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/Webp.net-resizeimage-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/Webp.net-resizeimage-4.jpg 246w, https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/Webp.net-resizeimage-4-165x93.jpg 165w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 246px) 100vw, 246px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>March 16, 2020, by Sissel McCarthy,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/newsliteracymatters.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">News Literacy Matters<\/a><\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>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\u2019s arguable that this crisis could prove to be even worse.&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/newsliteracymatters.com\/2020\/03\/16\/q-is-the-news-media-overreacting-to-the-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\">READ MORE.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s arguable that this crisis could prove to be even worse. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[276,272],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-career-news-and-tips","category-contagion-coverage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4915"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5142,"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4915\/revisions\/5142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}