Tim Arango and Brian Stelter of The New York Times report that the “24-hour news cycle of cable news and the Internet have amplified” the swine flu story.
AHCJ resources for covering swine flu, pandemics and preparednessOne Long Island doctors says patients’ anxiety has been raised by watching cable news from their hospital beds.
An infectious disease specialist “complained that the news media have not focused sufficiently on the fact that not a single person had died of swine flu in the United States during the current outbreak and that it could not be contracted from cooked meat.”
