Politicized News Leads to Self-Documenting
Item
- Title
- Politicized News Leads to Self-Documenting
- Description
- When the pandemic was first starting up, the news quickly became highly politicized. It was very frustrating for someone who just wanted to get exact figures of what was going on out in the world. My supervisor sent me a link to the Johns Hopkins COVID 19 Dashboard. I was delighted to just see figures without any persuasive text. For the next six months, I ended up taking a few minutes in the morning to pull up the dashboard and document the numbers in order to monitor and gauge the severity of the situation. It was my way to stay informed, without having to watch the news. I ended up stopping after 6 months because it became disheartening to see that the numbers were not improving. The pandemic is still raging 18 months later.
- Creator
- Melnyk, Jo
- Format
- Other/Otro
- Date
- 2020-03-10
- 2020-09-11
- Coverage
- Ayden, North Carolina
- Media
COVID Tally.pdf
This item was submitted on September 3, 2021 by [anonymous user] using the form “Contribute a Digital Item/Done un Artículo/Producto Digital” on the site “Documenting COVID-19 in Eastern North Carolina”: http://collections.ecu.edu/os/s/ecucovid19
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