1. Black Rainbow

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Tuesday, March 11th-10:43 a.m.

1,392 words. Approximate reading time: 6 minutes, 56 seconds.

“You can’t be serious with this,” Elaina said as she walked into her editor-in-chief’s office, holding up a few sheets of paper covered in text. Howard, the editor-in-chief, looked up from his computer at Elaina with an exasperated facial expression, and

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Thank you! When I was writing this, I wanted to try and make things morally ambiguous. To be clear, I'm not in favor of censorship in any form, but what's happening in the story isn't so much censorship as it is softening a blow. Is Howard right? Would the general public flip out and start food riots if the media explicitly told them, "Hey you should be worried about this?" Maybe, maybe not. I think we all remember how difficult it was to find toilet paper for a while because a few people went overboard and then created a snowball effect. If people hear, "Grocery stores are low on food," they might think rationally to themselves that they should go ahead and stock up before everyone else gets there... but lots of people are thinking the same thing.

So does the media have a responsibility to tell people not to worry so as not to add fuel to the fire, or do they have a responsibility to tell it like it is and let people decide what they want to do with the information? I don't really know. In the story, Elaina's clearly not super comfortable with the idea of telling people it's no big deal, but it's gotta be a difficult position to be in.