Delivering Bad News. Communications & Media Essay.

Delivering Bad News
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Al Jazeera's article on the death of Tanzanian's President John Pombe Magufuli Available at /news/2021/3/17/tanzanian-president-john-magufuli-is-dead-vp
Al Jazeera delivered the sad news of the passing of Tanzania's president John Pombe Magufuli in an inductive approach. Tanzania's vice president Samia Suluhu announced the president's death on Wednesday evening, citing heart condition as the primary cause of Magufuli's death. The author of Al Jazeera's article acknowledges the cause of death as announced by the vice president but insinuates other possible theories. First, the late president Magufuli has been skeptical about the COVID 19 disease. His country stopped giving statistics about the pandemic situation in Tanzania in April 2020. By June 2020, Magufuli declared the country COVID 19 free, citing divine intervention from God. Until February this year, when Zanzibar's vice president succumbed to COVID 19 disease, president ...