Is it me or does reporting on opium epidemic never get credited back to journos who did earliest work on it?
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@emptywheel The biggest bias in media is sticking to the running narrative, heroin is considered an inner-city street drug, … -
@emptywheel … so every time it got reported on in rural communities it was treated as an oddity and quickly forgotten, even while … -
@emptywheel … the reports were accurately classifying it as an epidemic, of which they were (usually) telling one places story.
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