Brian Stelter

Coverage of Ebola in West Africa

There is a cliché in the news busi­ness which says, ‘if it bleeds, it leads.’ It’s a reporter’s frame of mind when deal­ing with big news sto­ries and events of the moment. By this max­im, there is a ten­den­cy for crises, and dis­­as­ter-like events to gar­ner much atten­tion to the detri­ment of every­thing else. So,…