Look, your publication (and many many others) misled the public by not digging into the science, and not looking into what the great health authorities in Hong Kong, Taiwan, S.Korea and rest of Asia (where some of the world's best infectious disease specialists are) were doing.
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Why don't you guys learn, instead of getting defensive. It was a example of herding, groupthink and uncritical acceptance of one authority even though their instructions were face-value incoherent. Deserved digging in. You know, value of explainers? It's not uncritical parroting.
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The way out for the media is to show what value they add, not get defensive. Media has to prove it's value-added. Everyone's anxious. But people are very mad (you should see the emails I get) about how they were misled on the issue of masks and the complacency about the pandemic.
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Defensiveness is going to get people to further lose trust, and also CDC has a web page and a Twitter account. Most of the time, they are right. But as we saw, they can lag. Intermediaries have most value if they help us sift through exactly those moments.
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I will get back to discussing this with him. I don't agree completely. Plus, I lived through the Arab Spring. I feel those limits in my bones. There are things only journalism in the professional, more centralized sense can do. The question is distinguishing and paying for it.
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