Scott Rasmussen's Number of the Day for March 29, 2021
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March 29, 2021: When the national U.S. media covered the COVID pandemic, 87% of the coverage was negative.[1]
The study was initiated by Bruce Sacerdote, an economics professor at Dartmouth College. According to The New York Times, he began the study after noticing that the coverage always seemed negative. That was true even when the news was encouraging.[1]
It turns out that the U.S. national media coverage was far more negative than other outlets. Among international media outlets, just 51% of the coverage was negative. As for regional media coverage in the U.S., it was 53% negative. Even scientific journals provided negative coverage just 64% of the time.[1]
Molly Cook, a co-author of the study, observed, “The most well-read U.S. media are outliers in terms of their negativity.”[1]
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