Daily Herald Media Columnist Robert Feder provided the keynote speech on May 7 to the annual Illinois Associated Press Media Editors awards ceremony. In it, he gave a nostalgic tour of his career and a call to defend journalism. This is an edited transcript, along with the recorded video.
Coronavirus Disease Weekly News 18April 2021
The news posted last week for the coronavirus 2019-nCoV (aka SARS-CoV-2), which produces COVID-19 disease, has been surveyed and some important articles are summarized here. The articles are more or less organized with general virus news and anecdotes first, then stories from around the US, followed by an increased number of items from other countries around the globe. Economic news related to COVID-19 is found here.
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Summary:
New US cases of the coronavirus continued to inch a bit higher this week, while deaths attributed to the virus continued to fall. New Covid infections during the week ending April 17th were 2.2% higher than during the week ending April 10th, and up 26.5% from the 7 days ending March 16th (a six month low), but still down 72.6% from the early January peak. US Covid deaths were down 2.5% from the prior week, and down 78.7%
Living in fear for the foreseeable future seems to be the overall message that many Americans are hearing from more than a few doctors who really need to get their media-exposure diets under control.
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Being a news guy is a weird occupation these days.
When I got into the profession back in the 1980s, there was no Twitter, no Facebook, and very few cable TV channels. It would be a while before some ânewsâ channels went way left, and others went way right.
Walter Cronkite had just retired a few years earlier, and he had not reached the saintly status his name invokes today.
Almost every day, someone attacks me, or pretty much any news person, because we have reported a story they donât agree with, or one that doesnât echo their views.