Cathal Dennehy: Don’t believe all the doomsday hype about the Tokyo Olympics

Remember 2016, and all those headlines about the Zika virus?  In the build-up to any Olympics, the media’s approach is that good news is no news, and scare-mongering freak-outs make for much better content

People wearing protective masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus walk near a logo of Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Picture: Eugene Hoshiko

Here's a headline you didn’t read yesterday: There is growing confidence that the Olympics and Paralympics will take place this summer after Tokyo recorded its lowest daily Covid-19 case counts since November.

You didn’t read it because it wasn’t written, and it wasn’t written because in the build-up to any Olympics, the media’s approach is that good news is no news, and scare-mongering freak-outs make for much better content.