The media here in America sucks and this is why...

go to this link, then come back here. Seriously? Didn't they make a big deal out of the first round that happened earlier this year? I mean, really? Is it that much different, then say, the "regular" flu?

Here's a good link to read.

I'm not downplaying what happened earlier this year, but really, if major news sites are becoming fear-drivers to assist pharmaceutical companies selling the "vaccine" for this particular type of flu then I refuse to read any major news source. I remember them saying that it was going to kill everyone who got it and that hospitals were going to be brimming with patients - um, that did not happen. As a matter of fact, what did end up happening - fear and panic. Person after person would go to the emergency room because of a sore throat or a slight cough thinking they had the swine flu when in fact they only had a cold.

Also, have you ever noticed while watching TV that "you're a bad parent if you don't buy Lysol disinfectant floor cleaner because germs are lurking everwhere even all over the floor" (ok, not verbatim, but you know what I mean). First of all, there will always be germs on one's floor. It's life, deal with it. Don't go poisoning your children by cleaning your floors with toxic crap as it will just make the floors worse then what they were with the germs.

Companies are trying to scare us into buy products that we don't even need. Another example that I love: There was a commercial for some "home protection plan" like Brinks or something. The commercial went something like this: Girl goes on a date, then comes home at night and a guy had broken in (by breaking the glass window to the door of course) and it turned out to be an ex-boyfriend. The cops come and she's all safe and whatnot.

So, they have now moved passed the "protect your family thing" to "hey, even if you live alone and single....it's still dangerous!" And this annoys me and is my firm belief that this is why we have so much crime in this country. We perpetuate it ourselves by scaring ourselves half to death. Perhaps other countries have countless "home security companies" as well, honestly, I haven't researched it, just a hunch.

I'm still trying to think of other examples in which the media is used as a vehicle to instill fear in the American public...

Anyhow, I'm done ranting.