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A member of the medical staff comforts a patient infected by the novel coronavirus (PIERO CRUCIATTI/AFP/Getty Images)

Are we really hitting a pandemic “peak” — or is this a media mirage?

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Paramedics carry a stretcher with a patient out of an ambulance at Brooklyn Hospital Center on March 27, 2020 in New York City. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

How are people getting infected? It’s the most important question the media can answer

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A medical worker communicates with a patient at Xiaotangshan Hospital in Beijing, capital of China, March 30, 2020 (Xinhua/Chen Zhonghao via Getty Images)

Can you hide a pandemic? There’s no need to believe Beijing on China’s coronavirus success

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A NHS sign warning of coronavirus on Queen Street on March 22, 2020 in Cardiff, United Kingdom. (Matthew Horwood/Getty Images)

Media must get the facts right in a life-and-death crisis: Right now, that’s not happening

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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., right, with his wife Jane, speaks during a campaign event in San Antonio, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Bernie can’t win (by as much) unless youth turnout surges (as it recently has)

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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks at a campaign rally at the University of Minnesotas Williams Arena on November, 3, 2019 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Over 10,000 people attended the rally, where Sanders was joined by Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar. (Scott Heins/Getty Images)

New York Times: Bernie Sanders’ plan to fight climate emergency is too ambitious, slightly Trumpy

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Donald Trump (Getty Images/Saul Loeb/Salon)

New York Times warns Democrats: At all costs, avoid scaring the white people

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Demoted NYT editor Jonathan Weisman has a history of “lapses in judgment”

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Marc Benioff; Jeff Bezos (AP/Photo montage by Salon)

When billionaires decide it might be fun to run a newspaper (or a magazine)

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Augustin Dieudomme looks out at the flooded entrance to his apartment complex as it continues to rise in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence in Fayetteville, N.C., Sept. 18, 2018. (AP/David Goldman)

Climate change turned Florence into a monster storm — but mainstream media avoided that story

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Thomas Friedman (AP/Photo montage by Salon)

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman’s crazy terrible Middle Eastern economics

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Paulette Jordan; John Fetterman (AP/John Locher/Keith Srakocic)

Is the “far left” really conquering the Democratic Party? Some in the media think so

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Benghazi, March 13, 2018 (Getty/Abdullah Doma)

How did Benghazi become a ruin? New York Times ignores U.S. role in Libya’s devastation

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