A couple of days ago, I went over to CNN to find out what was going on.
Swine flu.
Then I headed over to MSNBC
More swine flu.
ABC? BBC? CBS?
Swine flu! Swine flu! Swine flu!
Once again, after the Avian Bird Flu and the SARS epidemic, yet another disease has arrived to kill about a hundred people, causing the media to incite a global panic over nothing. So far, 86 have died, but most who suffer from this mild, drug-responsive disease, have lived. No one outside of Mexico has yet died. I guess the media got tired of reporting on the economy so they inflated this thing.
I can understand the CDC getting a little worried about a new disease and taking precautions, but as for the media, it's absurd that they're taking it to this proportion, speculating the possibility of a pandemic which isn't going to happen. I guess fear sells.
"The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover." Al Franken
J Kuhl Signing Off
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