The media, both traditional and social media, had an outsized role during the pandemic in pushing the US government’s COVID response and defending the resulting coercive measures
- Their result was a one-sided, often factually misleading or unsubstantiated narrative on important issues concerning science, economics, and health, for the better part of two years
- This has had a chilling effect on information flows and journalism, and it dramatically distorted public understanding in many areas from science to health to economics to the proper role of media in a free society
Many crucial questions remain about precisely how this happened and is still happening
- To what extent did the media cooperate with the government in the effort to drive one narrative and suppress competing ones?
- Were there sociological reasons?
- Was it purely a case of the free press acquiescing to government control or imagining themselves to be part of the regime?- Is it right that legacy media alone should be the arbiter of science and opinion?
https://brownstone.org/research/articles-of-inquiry-the-role-of-media/
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