A Tale Of Two Pandemics: Media Downplayed Swine Flu Outbreak Under Obama – Issues & Insights--I&I Editorial
"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.
Yet the press barely covered any of these events..."
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.
...Do CNN’s reporters and editors not know about the flu pandemic of 1918?
Or even the swine flu pandemic of 2009?
...The swine flu was a serious enough outbreak for President Barack Obama to declare a public health emergency in late April 2009.
The WHO declared it a pandemic in early July – at which time 18,000 Americans had contracted the novel flu virus and 44 had died.
And unlike coronavirus, the swine flu was more deadly to younger people.
Obama declared a national emergency when the virus reemerged with a vengeance in the fall.Yet the press barely covered any of these events..."
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