IS IT A CRIME TO CRY “FIRE” IN A CROWDED AUDITORIUM?
Each and every one of the deaths resulting from the Coronavirus have been a genuine, heartbreaking tragedy; but, statistically, in comparison with deaths resulting from past influenza outbreaks and other causes, this virus falls far short of the overblown, Black Plague-like proportions that have been assigned to it by the news media. The history of news media is one of the exaggeration, if not the outright fabrication, of incidents reported. Sensationalism sells papers and grows ratings and is a vehicle for otherwise no-talent “reporters” to draw some attention to thems