re: #247 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

“Misinformation and erroneous fear” is stock in trade for a lot of modern journalists and pundits…

Shortened for accuracy. It’s always been like this and newspapers 100 years ago reacted to epidemics with fearmongering and hyperbole as well.

Most US media outlets exist to make money, and their coverage goes where profit can be made.