Irresponsible Media

[GardenSanctuary]

I think the media are as much to blame for the state the world is in, almost as much as the poxy virus.

I'm not worried about getting covid. Most stories are just click bait and aimed at instilling fear. Well fuck it. No more news for me. I am going to become a hermit until some rational sense returns to humanity.

Of course it is the media that started the spread of this virus, is infecting people and causing them to die. How silly we all are.

I do kind of agree OP, there’s a lot of scaremongering in the media, we here of the most extreme cases, some of the headlines are shocking and exaggerated to scare people. Social media is awful too, just full of people spreading panic.

Newspapers in particular, add to the confusion on message. Quite often they will publish the particularly (in their opinion) shock "maybe's" before the government even gets a chance to set out any changes. The more sensational the better. Then the next day they will complain, or sensationalise, or trawl around for opposite opinions, continuously muddying the waters. It's no surprise people are confused.

@Yogaroll

Of course it is the media that started the spread of this virus, is infecting people and causing them to die. How silly we all are.

Not what I said. Are you a journalist?

"scaremongering" = bad news I don't want to hear, even if it's true.

I think it was irresponsible of R4's PM news to announce that Tesco and Asda were restricting the sale of some items (which they named) because people are starting to bulk buy again.
No need for an announcement, people likely to hear this and rush out to stock up.

No I'm not a journalist. But I work for the nhs and have had witnessed multiple colleagues and patients die from covid. My father has also died of covid.
I find it utterly ignorant and insulting to insinuate that this is just a poxy virus as you said in your OP.

@shoofle

"scaremongering" = bad news I don't want to hear, even if it's true.

Precisely this.

I think actually the media has been the other way.
We've had stories of "Aged 106, with serious lung problems comes out having survived covid-19" - I've seen far more of those than ones on long-covid for example. I knew about that from people who had it long before it was mentioned in the media.

Then we had the "children can't spread it" which happened to be all over the media just before the children went back to school.

If there's a day with more deaths/cases it seems to come out with reasons such as more tests, or reminding people that deaths are day it's registered not day of actual death, so the actual number today is X, not mentioning that X will go up over the next few days as it gets added to.

I think they have been irresponsible, but in the opposite way to what you're saying.

Totally agree. It's like a MSM journalists wet dream