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All Coronavirus’s Names

February 27, 2020 admin Ethics AdviceLine 0

All coronavirus‘s names: Journalists have the responsibility to put things in context, writes Merrill Perlman.

Acknowledge its place in the pantheon of disease, she writes. “Reporting as if it were the end of the world is an epidemic of a different kind.”

 


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