Researchers at Dartmouth College and Brown University did a content analysis of tens of thousands of COVID-19 news stories to look at the levels of negativity.
They also found the mainstream media were 25 percentage points more likely to be negative than more general U.S news sources.
The researchers claim that the major U.S. media outlets were simply feeding the public's desire for gloomy news.
Why wouldn't local news be just as negative? Or international news?
What's more, a chart published by the New York Times based on the study's data shows that the mainstream press' fixation on bad COVID news started to lift once Joe Biden declared himself winner of the November 2020 election.
As soon as that election was over, the press suddenly started reporting good economic news.
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https://issuesinsights.com/2021/03/29/report-media-reported-only-bad-covid-news-until-trump-lost/
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