Further proof of the lack of coverage of the Swine Flu, H1N1) because Obama was president!
Yet the press barely covered any of these events.
When the WHO declared the swine flu “unstoppable” on June 11, 2009, CNN didn’t even lead with that story on its homepage. It was in a pile of links on the side of the page. (See the screenshot of that day’s home page below, taken from the Internet Archive.)
A week later, there was
no mention of the swine flu anywhere on CNN’s home page.
When Obama declared a national emergency, CNN didn’t get around to mentioning the death toll of the disease
until the 10th paragraph.
By that point, millions had been infected and 1,000 people in the U.S. had died.
The swine flu killed 12,000 Americans when the previous administration was in the White House, but there was no media panic.
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Again further proof!!!
Media coverage sets the agenda for public debate. While the news doesn’t necessarily tell us what to think, it tells us what to think about. In doing so, the news signals what issues merit our attention. Research has consistently shown that when issues receive extensive media coverage and are prominent in the news agenda, they also come to be seen as
more important by members of the public.
The current outbreak has been much more prominent in media coverage than recent epidemics, including Ebola.
For example, a
Time Magazine study shows that there were 23 times more articles in English-language print news covering the coronavirus outbreak in its first month compared to the same time period for the Ebola epidemic in 2018.
‘Killer virus’
My own research suggests that fear has played a particularly vital role in coverage of the coronavirus outbreak. Since reports first started circulating about the new mystery illness on January 12, and up until February 13 2020, I have tracked reporting in major English-language newspapers around the world, using the LexisNexis UK database.
This includes almost 100 high-circulation newspapers from around the world, which have collectively published 9,387 stories about the outbreak. Of these, 1,066 articles mention “fear” or related words, including “afraid”.
Such stories often used other frightening language – for example, 50 articles used the phrase “killer virus”. One article in
The Telegraph newspaper was typical of this fear-inducing language, in describing scenes on the ground in Wuhan shared on social media:
Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, Professor and Director of Research Development and Environment, School of Journalism,
Cardiff University
New contagious diseases are scary. They frighten us because they are unknown and unpredictable.
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Further Proof???
Not only is the media intentionally mischaracterizing things that Trump administration officials and the president himself are saying regarding the outbreak, the coverage is wall-to-wall, 24/7, as though there is nothing else more important. Oeople we know who are legitimate journalists and who have been in this business for years are shaking their heads in disbelief. They’ve never seen anything like this, it’s so journalistically unethical.
And yet, when the god king Obama was in office and he was dealing with the Swine flu (H1N1), the media coverage of that outbreak was nothing compared to what it is now.
And that’s probably because the media coverage then was downright sparse compared to what we’re seeing reported and hyped regarding coronavirus.
In fact, as the editors from Investors Business Daily
noted today in a column, there were
1,000 deaths from Swine flu before Obama declared a national emergency:
"The potential impact of the coronavirus might still be unknown, but the media hype is already plain as day. Particularly when you compare how they are covering this pandemic with the last one, which happened to occur when Barack Obama was in the White House.
To get a sense of the differences in how the press treated these two outbreaks of brand new viruses, let’s look at how the New York Times and CNN – the bellwethers of mainstream journalism in print and on TV – covered each at similar points in the outbreak.
The day after the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a pandemic, and President Donald Trump gave a national address, CNN’s front page was almost entirely devoted to coronavirus."
By Jon Dougherty
thenationalsentinel.com
I've provided substantiation, qualified opinions by experts.
SO please those of you with common sense... comprehend the role the MSM has played in the public's angst!
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