For some media organizations the fear mongering accusation is true, others much less. I agree it's tiresome to tar them all with the same brush. Of course every

For some media organizations the fear mongering accusation is true, others much less. I agree it's tiresome to tar them all with the same brush. Of course everyone needs to treat sources of information with a bit of healthy scepticism. On the COVID theme, it does remind me of an all hands call at my company with a quite senior person during the early days of the pandemic. At one point, we were confidently told that the 20,000 deaths Sky News were reporting as possible was "fake news" and the media was scaring everyone. Well, we know how that turned out (hint, the Sky News figure was around x6 too little). I thought at the time it was a bold statement given no one really had any idea how the pandemic would progress.