Prime example: I opened up cnn.com which some people consider to be a news web site. The main headline is "Experts say grocery stores may need to keep customers out" (https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/19/business/grocery-stores-coron...). The real story is that grocery store workers are dying but a title based on that isn't clickbaity enough. It has to make you think the article actually affects you so you click it. I probably wouldn't have clicked the link if it was about grocery store workers getting covid-19.

And of course their "experts" are just random people who said some things. And they mention that even if they do keep customers out they while still have pickup and possibly delivery. So who cares about that part of the story then? Apparently it's not going to affect me.

The media has done nothing to prevent panic buying and everything to encourage it with these click bait headlines. There is no reason stores should be running out of anything but PPE and other things where demand naturally shot up because covid-19 like PPE and disinfectant. Demand for toilet paper only went up because of the media (and government). The other thing the media has been doing is shaming people but I'm not going to go there.