Coronavirus in the News: Are they Overreacting?

I scraped over 5,000 news articles to find out

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[2022 Update: Dear readers, please keep in mind that this article was originally written Mar 12, 2020 — well before we knew most of what we know now about COVID. And while writing this I was purely curious as to whether the media was portraying the situation with objectivity, I realize the pandemic has…