How journalists can address mistrust in the pandemic and flatten the curve ​

Journalists have a very important job in this time of chaos to be clear and contribute necessary information to its listeners. Viewers have an important job of taking what people who have conducted research and studied the disease to listen to what the reports are. I found it very interesting and cool that they have a view mindsets of just repeating a simple and clear message that everyone can remember. This is easy for someone who has not paid hardly any attention to the news and for the person who can't stop watching. Earlier when the pandemic was just beginning to take shape a reoccurring topic was washing your hands. They were adamant about informing you of how to wash and for how long. Then if you fast forward to today it has progressed to stay at home and social distancing. This is something we've all heard from someone regardless of how much media we have decided to take in. It also mentions the use of graphs and charts as opposed to words. I think this makes total sense, today's day in age people are not interested in words as much as they are photos. They would rather look at the information in a matter of seconds then take the time and get the full scope and point behind an article. This is a huge help to giving people information as long as it is created correctly and is not swayed in a way to contribute some form of narrative.