For those of you in the "I want data" camp here are two good resources:
This first site is updated daily at midnight, with worldwide counts broken down by country, plus drill-ins. Note that this only tracks reports from voluntarily submitted, verifiable sources. That's why some counts have stopped updating (Italy has shut down a lot of the data it was sharing to them) and also means others (USA) are much higher than actually shown (not enough test kits to positively identify likely cases, plus chaos in tracking and reporting mechanisms so far). You should not use this as an absolute number for anything. The only important detail is the relative change day to day.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
This next site is a long-form article with a lot of detail about the history, current status, and general details you may want to know. The TL;DR is "Take it seriously, but don't panic." The scary part about this disease is NOT its symptoms or its death rate. It's that we still barely understand it in the first place. Anybody who says either "it's going to be a massive killer" OR "it'll just blow over like the flu" are full of it. We don't actually know either thing because we're just learning about it now. Do you know if COVID can cause cancer? No? Do you know it can't? No. Because nobody does know that. Here's what we DO know, if you want to be informed:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/03/dont-panic-the-comprehensive-ars-technica-guide-to-the-coronavirus/
Hype and mis-reporting are happening from both sides, but honestly it's probably as much lack of actual knowledge than any "agenda". I've done enough consulting in the media industry to have an inside view into how it works, and I can tell you that the bulk of the "agenda" most people see just isn't there. The real answer is not actually better - in some views it might be worse. The bulk of media outlets really just want to make money, and they do it by getting clicks and views. Guess how that happens? They write stuff people want to read!
95% of the time, what people want to read is what they already believe and just want reinforcement on. Anything that counters their view is an "agenda". If there's an agenda, it's on the part of the readers, and the MSM is just selling into it. I'm not saying this in defense of the industry. If anything, I think it paints a worse view because at least if you DO have an agenda you can stand up and say "I have values and I stand by them." The truth is actually worse in most cases. There are exceptions. Some media outlets do have an objectively verifiable "agenda" but most don't. Most are just indifferent shills writing whatever titles and ledes their analytics tell them get the most clicks each week...
Anyway, soapbox off. Keep safe everybody, and here's to a good hunting season once this is all behind us.