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Chairman of the Indonesian Journalists Association (PWI), Atal S. Depari, emphasized that coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic by the mass media, should be informative and comforting to the people. As quoted by Antara News, he stated at a press conference of the Task Force for the Acceleration of COVID-19 Handling, broadcasted through the BNPB YouTube account in Jakarta, Friday that the Association will continue to tirelessly remind our fellow journalists to not be coquettish in their reporting. Depari noted that some media platforms came up with headlines that differed from the content of the reported news, with the sole intention to grab the public’s attention. Such practice of journalism is worrisome, as it could mislead people, especially those only skimming through headlines without reading the news content//ANT