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Originally Posted by Choro&Swing
The article you attached is not easy to understand. It requires careful attention, but it is pretty much saying what you say. I think part of the problem is that usually the journalists who write the news stories don’t write the headlines. Headlines are usually written by specialists who are good at clever or short headlines and who know what will make people want to read more. They usually don’t have time to read the entire article because they may need to write a hundred headlines a day. So they scan the first paragraph or two. I’m not certain, but I think that is what happened here.
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The headline, actual text in the article, and the graph are all deliberately designed to spread panic, not actual understanding of the data.