Bird Flu Pandemic!!!

     Whatever happened to the bird flu? I was sure that half the world's population would be wiped out by now. Could it be that our mainstream mass media could have actually been wrong about something? They wouldn't hype a story to grab ratings would they?

      I guess that bird flu must have put on a false front and fooled all of those intrepid "reporters" and "scientists". It must have taken a page from the playbook of swine flu from the seventies.

      It's amazing to me that the general public seems to forget about these "major" news stories. The media that hype them never seem to be brought to task over them. Instead, they just plow ahead looking for the next big headline grabber that will possibly boost their ratings a point or two.

      I think that it is morally, ethically, and journalistically irresponsible for any media outlet to pump up a story to the point that children and little old ladies can't sleep at night because they are worried about what might happen in the future. These stories have a habit of cropping up every few years. It is one thing to report on a disease that has killed some people. It is entirely different to turn that story into a "pandemic".

      In a better world, media sources that practice the kind of journalism that created the bird flu pandemic would be boycotted into oblivion. I'm hoping for a better world.