Al Jazeera‘s media show The Listening Post on how the mainstream media reacted—and over-reacted—to the H1N1 virus, secure in the knowledge that no one would ever accuse them of overkill. And how the digital purveyors of the rumours on blogs, Twitter, Facebook, etc, were themselves victims. Also read: 8 dos (and don’ts) on how to…
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8 dos (and 8 don’ts) on reporting swine flu
The Swine Flu has still not made its way to India. So far. All the four people who were under observation are reported to have tested negative. But there is something about scary medical stories that draws the media like, well, flies to a wound, and it is more likely than not that more than…
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