Journalists like to cover pandemics because there is a chance they are covering the end of the world, and Armageddon is the ultimate story any journalist can ask for.
Pandemics always make for sensational coverage.
When covering a pandemic, journalists are reminded of the immense power they possess when it comes to covering such events. With one stroke of the keyboard that mentions “swine flu” and “pandemic” in the same sentence, thousands of people go into panic mode
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
Journalism and the Apocolypse
Some thoughts on the covering of the Swine flu courtesy of Christopher Oriz
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