But do we have to trust those pieces of news if they come from Bbc and Cnn??
I don't know about CNN, but the BBC will be true.
There will be that woman in Wuhan, she will have talked to the BBC, that will be a fair translation of what she said.
All of that will be true.
Please notice that they do not extrapolate from her words. They leave us to do that.
Notice also that they do not provide any supporting evidence for her claims.
This is an obvious example of sending two messages at the same time.
On the surface it is a human interest story about the subjective experiences of one woman and her family.
On a deeper level it is encouraging the reader to form a specific opinion. That the official figures do not reflect the reality, and that everything there is going to hell in a handcart. But at no point do the BBC ever say that.
The BBC has a very good record. They do excellent fact checking, and declare their sources. They are one of the most reliable and trustworthy news sources in the world.
If they say it, then it is probably true.
The interesting thing is how they say something, and the things they do not say, even while appearing to say them, and the things they ignore altogether.
So, the only thing I can say is that this is what the BBC want you to read. They want you to believe this is truth, they want you to draw the obvious conclusions.