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Every "news" editor knows you can't run a headline of, "Breaking News: 0.04% of our population has succumbed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus." You'd get laughed out of town, and viewership and sponsors would drop like a rock; especially when compared to your media competitors, who lead with total number of deaths, or worse, total number of "confirmed" cases.
A5S
If it bleeds it leads. Sensationalist entertainment packaged as news had done a disservice to our country for decades.