# Media hype and disinformation
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So it seems that the World Health Organization has overturned its travel ban to Toronto. Turns out it should have never imposed a ban in the first place, given that it was based on rather shoddy science. But what about the media hysteria that surrounded the ban? In a keynote to a World Trade Center event in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania yesterday, I used the following observations, which were obtained from a Web site analyzing a crisis: "coverage of the situation and its repercussions by the mainstream media was confusing at best" "few journalists managed to impart to the public a clear, coherent picture of the evolution of the crisis" "most coverage suffered from some form of bias" "facts, related by people with the time to gain a full understanding of their meaning, have been scarce" Were these comments about SARS and media disinformation in Toronto? Nope -- they were written about how media hysteria managed to distort honest reporting on Three Mile Island in Harrisburg over 20 years ago. Will some things never change?

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Source: https://jimcarroll.com/2003/04/media-hype-and-disinformation/