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US Media’s Anglo-Centric Pandemic Reporting Is Harming America
The MSM is doing little foreign reporting on the pandemic. That failure is getting Americans killed.
For those of us Americans who watch the news on the television, how much do we hear about the pandemic outside our borders? We are told how Sweden is making it through the pandemic without a lockdown and how the president is blaming China, but other than that, the American media’s coverage of the pandemic seems to be wall-to-wall “America!”
This exposes one of America’s greatest weaknesses, the fact that many of us seem to care little about what happens in other nations. Remember when we were looking at the possibility of war with Iran back in January? That seems a century ago, but the key is this: fewer than a quarter of registered American voters can even locate Iran on a world map. “Let’s bomb Iran! By the way, where is Iran anyway?”
This self-imposed ignorance of the world around us is the root cause of most of our social resistance to the measures taken to address the pandemic. Why? Because we’re not learning the lessons the rest of the world has to teach us. Witness the ongoing protests, the indignant posturing by those who either downplay the severity of the pandemic or claim that despite its severity, the lockdown’s effect on the nation’s economy is nonetheless a greater danger to…
