Nice as it would be to have such a blackout the media companies would complain to no end about lost profits. The incentives are totally misaligned. In my opinio

Nice as it would be to have such a blackout the media companies would complain to no end about lost profits. The incentives are totally misaligned. In my opinion, Fox and the AP are not really comparable in terms of quality. The former is for-profit, the latter is non-profit. "If it bleeds, it leads" is less viable when people rely on you writing the more undistilled version of a story to sell to others who put their own spin on it later. That's not to say there's no bias at all in such journalism, but I feel like the incentives greatly affect the content of the story. If people panicking leads to people watching more news, the news companies will let it happen. Besides, these people have to put food in the table somehow. Asking them to just stop working because their work is ethically compromised would raise various issues.