Too Long; Didn't Read
The media calamity of ‘The Corona’ is disturbing and dismal, but even still, many are buzzed. We come to expect the same narratives, extremities and plot twists from politics, hurricanes and viruses as we do from Game of Thrones. We're wading through something arguably much worse: hot-joking neuroticism and snowballing neuroticism. Without today’s social media, we’re filling in our own real-life drama, Cronkite says. Fitting questions: What is the media's role in this panic until we remember that we are the media.