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Anonymous ID: 672f09 Feb. 1, 2023, 7:17 p.m. No.18268154   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8164 >>8467 >>8521

‘We failed’: Danish newspaper apologises for not questioning government Covid-19 numbers

 

A Danish newspaper has apologised to its readers for not being critical enough in its reporting of government coronavirus case numbers.

 

In an article in the Ekstra Bladet tabloid last week headlined “We Failed”, journalist Brian Weichardt issued a mea culpa to the public on behalf of the media for not doing more to interrogate Covid-19 statistics.

 

Weichardt wrote that for nearly two years, both the press and the public had been “almost hypnotically preoccupied” with authorities’ daily coronavirus updates, obsessing over infections, hospitalisations and deaths, as the significance of the “smallest movements” was “laid out by experts, politicians and authorities, who have constantly warned us about the dormant corona monster under our beds”.

 

“The constant mental alertness has worn out tremendously on all of us,” he wrote. “That is why we – the press – must also take stock of our own efforts. And we have failed.”

 

https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/media/we-failed-danish-newspaper-apologises-for-not-questioning-government-covid19-numbers/news-story/5f360ab5764cf9bcfb0d8edae7160658