Study Finds U.S. Media More Negative On COVID Coverage Than Other Countries' Media

When it comes to bad news, nobody reports it quite as thoroughly as the United States.

According to David Leonhardt of the New York Times, data shows that national publications in our great nation "cover Covid news much more negatively than foreign media, scientific journals or regional media within the U.S."

Leonhardt offered a graphic to prove his point.

This followed a report from Fortune back in November that basically indicated the same thing -- that the mainstream media in the United States has put a much more negative spin on the pandemic than the media in other nations.

"You may wonder how coverage of a deadly global pandemic could be anything other than negative, but day-to-day developments over the past eight months have been good as well as bad," Fortune wrote. "Case counts sometimes decline, therapies are discovered, vaccine research advances. Through it all, America’s most popular media outlets have proved extraordinarily adept at finding the clouds in a blue sky and making them the focus of the story."

This is no different than usual. In the U.S., bad news has always made the best news as far as the mainstream media is concerned.