Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Today’s Video: Much "achoo" about nothing?

Is the news over the swine flu outbreak blown out of proportion and as terrible as is being reported? “Face it: this story is dumb” mentioned Gawker in a post this morning which admonished the press for using scare tactics and creating a panic. A similar critique was described on “The Daily Show” Monday night:
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What do you think?

Online Sources- Gawker, Comedy Central, The Latin Americanist
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2 comments:

  1. Anonymous11:06 PM

    RUN FOR YOUR LIVES FOLKS THE END OF THE WORLD IS UPON US.

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  2. Benjamin N. Gedan12:34 PM

    As always, John Stewart is hilarious. That said, it remains to be seen if the cable news coverage of this public health issue is indeed exaggerated. I remember hearing similar criticism of the reporting on Hurricane Katrina, that is, before the levees broke.

    Watching today an LAT video shot in Mexico City (I'll paste the link below), swine flu certainly seemed pretty scary to me.

    http://www.latimes.com/video/?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=3696223

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