Mary Sanchez: News coverage of toilet paper hoarders and other pandemic failures
Remember the Great Toilet Paper Hoard in spring of 2020?
The pandemic was young, the country was fearful, and yet so naive to the coming death tolls, now at more than 608,000 dead.
Panicked toilet paper stockpiling, along with the massive news coverage of the run on toilet paper, seems almost juvenile in hindsight.
But the fact that those images are so readily plucked from memory illustrates a media failure.
The overemphasis of our more selfish selves is one way my profession inadvertently misplayed what could have been a more productive role
