Here in Brazil the pandemic is currently in the worst phase it has ever been, with no signs of improving in the near future.<p>I'm glad that other countries can have good news to share but unfortunately that is certainly not the case here.
CNN Technical director told us as much - Money & power.<p><a href="https://www.projectveritas.com/news/part-2-cnn-director-charlie-chester-reveals-how-network-practices/" rel="nofollow">https://www.projectveritas.com/news/part-2-cnn-director-char...</a>
Highly recommend the "Coronavirus Good News" twitter account<p><a href="https://twitter.com/Coronavirusgoo1?s=09" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/Coronavirusgoo1?s=09</a><p>It's uk based but a lot of the info it retweets is globally applicable
Man falls downstairs and breaks his leg.<p>Pessimist: bad things always happen to me, my leg broke, I'm so unlucky.<p>Optimist: I'm so lucky I just broke my leg. I could have broken my neck!
There is a steady stream of anti-vaccine fake news - all designed to look plausible.
People with an education in biotech detacts this, the common person weighs it as a bit of valid news = seeds of doubt are sown.
check microbe.tv for the real goods.
Well, humans are more likely to be interested in bad news. As a survival strategy, that happens to be a good place to direct ones attention. Unfortunately for The News, our attention and so their source of income is getting harder and harder to come by. Given all that, and coupled with how entirely central and all-consuming Covid-19 has become as a topic the past year-and-a-half, these results shouldn't be all that shocking. I wonder how it might compare to any of the upcoming catastrophic or disruptive phenomenons of the 2020s.
This paper is dated November 2020, but I don't think anything has changed. In the past 48 hours, the local paper ran a story about everybody needing a third booster shot, a story about all the things it's still not safe to do if you're fully vaccinated, and finally a story that the city was immediately moving to full general eligibility because vaccine providers couldn't fill appointments. Nowhere did they provide links to any of the providers with open slots. You had to work that out for yourself.
It's not? Vaccine roll out seems to be going well and cases are down in California and there have been articles about this, they just aren't very interesting...
Most of news related to COVID is bad news. You don't get to 500k deaths in the US (3 million globally) as the result of an equal amount of good things (i.e vaccines) vs bad things (repeatedly overwhelmed ERs) happening.<p>The media has the effect of amplifying the bad news, and some of it is very appropriate when it emphasizes the bad behavior of those in positions of extreme power like the president, but the nature of a pandemic is to be inherently far more bad than good, and most of the good (vaccines, economic relief packages for the working class) are only relative to how bad the fundamental situation is.
TL;DR - because that's what they think we want to hear.<p>They do a little bit of comparison to past news, but it would be interesting to see a comparison to post-9/11 coverage of terrorism in particular, since 9/11 was the most recent event with emotional impact on the same level.
When you open up vaccination to less vulnerable groups long before those who most need the vaccination have gotten it, then you end up with a lot more dead people than necessary.<p>That policy makes it look superficially like fast progress is happening but in the end extra dead people makes sad news.