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Why Is All COVID-19 News Bad News?

  [108]Bruce Sacerdote, [109]Ranjan Sehgal & [110]Molly Cook
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  Working Paper 28110
  DOI 10.3386/w28110
  Issue Date November 2020

  We analyze the tone of COVID-19 related English-language news articles
  written since January 1, 2020. Ninety one percent of stories by U.S.
  major media outlets are negative in tone versus fifty four percent for
  non-U.S. major sources and sixty five percent for scientific journals.
  The negativity of the U.S. major media is notable even in areas with
  positive scientific developments including school re-openings and
  vaccine trials. Media negativity is unresponsive to changing trends in
  new COVID-19 cases or the political leanings of the audience. U.S.
  major media readers strongly prefer negative stories about COVID-19,
  and negative stories in general. Stories of increasing COVID-19 cases
  outnumber stories of decreasing cases by a factor of 5.5 even during
  periods when new cases are declining. Among U.S. major media outlets,
  stories discussing President Donald Trump and hydroxychloroquine are
  more numerous than all stories combined that cover companies and
  individual researchers working on COVID-19 vaccines.
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      assistance. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and
      do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of
      Economic Research.
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