While the disease creates new challenges, it also highlights long-standing ones in terms of policy, communication, and societal awareness of key issues and how the media reports on these issues.

As the crisis continues, the impact of the media not just on the health crisis, but on the related economic crisis is clear. From the Great Depression we learned Roosevelt’s mantra, “The only thing we have to fear is the fear itself.” 25 years later, after World War II, Ludwig Erhard b...

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While the disease creates new challenges, it also highlights long-standing ones in terms of policy, communication, and societal awareness of key issues and how the media reports on these issues.

As the crisis continues, national prime time news programs have followed their governments and reported about the coronavirus with an extreme national view. Other countries have received coverage if their news was particularly alarming. Italy, Spain, France, the UK, and the US were the prefe...

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While the disease creates new challenges, it also highlights long-standing ones in terms of policy, communication, and societal awareness of key issues and how the media reports on these issues.

As the crisis continues we have heard little about those dealing with anxiety disorders and what the impact of the ongoing crisis on them will be. The prevalence of anxiety disorders across the world varies from 2.5 to 7 percent by country. Globally an estimated 284 million people experience...

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While the disease creates new challenges, it also highlights long-standing ones in terms of policy, communication, and societal awareness of key issues and how the media reports on these issues.

In media coverage, senior citizens have historically been near invisible. While challenges around assisted living, pension systems, and securing a life with dignity have been burning issues for decades, they have rarely made it into primetime news. In order to ensure that society can have a ...

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While the disease creates new challenges, it also highlights long-standing ones in terms of policy, communication, and societal awareness of key issues and how the media reports on these issues.

Aside from the key question of whether there are hospitals available to help people survive if they get sick, the other pressing challenge for many is whether they can pay their bills and continue to be employed. In these Covid-19 times of uncertainty, solid information is critical as false ...

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