Is the media over hyping the Swine Flu epidemic Part 2

Charlie Beckett over his Director's blog puts up a smart defence of the media's reporting over the last few days.

it is also the job of journalists to rush to where potential stories break. I would rather an over-eager media than a complacent press corps. Our job is to be the canary in the coal-mine, the first draft of history. We need to be much better at understanding and explaining risk, but it is hardly an exact science. While the experts argue, it is the journalists job to dig and to question.