Garber has identified there are several factors when it
comes to crisis report in the reporting of the Ebola “crisis” we see several of
those factors. According to Garber the first few moments are about getting the
information out regardless of whether it is correct or not. We’ve definitely
seen this with the media’s reporting of Ebola. Garber says stage three, attempt
to connect the crisis with a larger long-term prospective, happens
simultaneously with the stage one and two. Many reports have blamed government
officials over this the past few weeks. Most of the attention has been directed
at the White House because of its inability to control the outbreak. However, such fails to connect the inability of
the Senate to confirm the health official Obama nominated towards the beginning
of his second term.
During the second phase of the crisis reporting, the media attempts
to correct any incorrect information. Alderson does raise the question is there
really an outbreak? Major news networks have attempted to set the record straight.
Both NBC and Fox network issued a journalistic commentary in which they
confronted the idea of that the flu is easier to catch than Ebola, and more
pole are likely to die from the flu than Ebola.
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