ESSAY
"Cough, Cough"

Categories

Stephanie Chang

April 8, 2003

National

Economics/Business

Health

China

Media

Public response

SARS

Media manipulation

Excerpt (first and last two sentences)
"News stories and headline articles attempt to be as objective as possible, simply reporting the facts given and known and avoiding perspectives or opinions.  The readers and the audience are given the opportunity to unravel, comprehend, and act according to their own interpretation of what they read, hear, and see....
...Meanwhile, the passenger who had originally coughed has exclaimed, “It’s only spring allergies, I swear!”  Our perception of risk can and has easily become skewed."

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