Alarmist reporting on COVID-19 will only heighten people's anxieties and drive vaccine hesitancy
- Written by Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
From an ethics perspective, it has been a bad couple of weeks for media coverage of COVID-19.
First, there was a highly questionable story in The Australian about China allegedly weaponising coronavirus, with the headline “‘Virus warfare’ in China files” splashed across the front page.
The author of the article, Sharri...
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