Interesting blog post by Kajsa Wilhelmsson on the potentially devastating impact media’s making in its reporting of the swine flu pandemic. Includes a link to a video by the always facinating Hans Rolsing at Gapminder who contrasts the way in which the media have swarmed to the swine flu story whilst universally ignoring a genuine global catastrophe in the form of deaths from TB. He ends by warning us all against the dangers of media hype.
Interesting blog post by Kajsa Wilhelmsson on the potentially devastating impact media’s making in its reporting of the swine flu pandemic. Includes a link to a video by the always facinating Hans Rolsing at Gapminder who contrasts the way in which the media have swarmed to the swine flu story whilst universally ignoring a genuine global catastrophe in the form of deaths from TB. He ends by warning us all against the dangers of media hype.
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