“A fool's mouth is his ruin, And his lips are the snare of his soul.” Proverbs 18:7 (NASB).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
Bruce Sacerdote, a Dartmouth College economics professor, noticed Covid-19 television coverage always seemed negative.
He then gathered two other researches to analyze the matter and they found about 87 percent of national U.S. media coverage was negative compared to only 51 percent in international media, 53 percent in U.S. regional media and 64 percent in scientific journals.
But New York Times columnist David Leonhardt is careful to emphasize that Sacerdote doesn’t think journalists reported falsehoods per se. They simply emphasized certain negative facts and ignored…. other… facts!
We call that lying where I’m from.
