When I first heard about the outbreak of the “Swine Flu,” I have to say that I did not think anything of it, but after seeing a few headlines here and there about it I said to myself, “Hey, I have to do this blog post where I compare how Fox News and CNN cover the same news story.” This seemed like a big enough story, so I turned on the television to see what all the hubbub was about. Over the next hour or so, I was convinced by both Fox and CNN that the cold that I had was some sort of mutant pathogen that was going to kill me and half of the world’s population. Thanks guys, I was looking for something else to stress out about.
Although this probably was not the best news story to look at for this situation, I did not really see any political bias one way or the other on either network. The only noticeable difference was that CNN had a lot more references to Obama’s upcoming 100th day in office. All things considered though, I’m going to go ahead and assume that if I had watched these networks on some other day, there might have been a little more bias present. I guess a pandemic is not really something that you can put a political spin on (even though I’m sure those sneaky Democrats have something to do with it).
Luckily for me, I was able to use this handy thing called the internet to do a little research of my own about the disease that supposedly is going to kill us all. Everything that I read pointed to the fact that the Swine Flu is basically no more dangerous than a regular flu. All the symptoms are the same, and it can be easily treated just by using antibiotics. As I am writing this, there have been around 150 deaths from this “outbreak” thus far. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, there are approximately 36,000 deaths from flu every year in just the United States. Correct me if I’m wrong, but this does not sound like a reason to start preparing for the apocalypse. All I can say for sure is that liberal or conservative, the one thing that news networks can agree on is that they love scaring the living hell out of people.
Although this probably was not the best news story to look at for this situation, I did not really see any political bias one way or the other on either network. The only noticeable difference was that CNN had a lot more references to Obama’s upcoming 100th day in office. All things considered though, I’m going to go ahead and assume that if I had watched these networks on some other day, there might have been a little more bias present. I guess a pandemic is not really something that you can put a political spin on (even though I’m sure those sneaky Democrats have something to do with it).
Luckily for me, I was able to use this handy thing called the internet to do a little research of my own about the disease that supposedly is going to kill us all. Everything that I read pointed to the fact that the Swine Flu is basically no more dangerous than a regular flu. All the symptoms are the same, and it can be easily treated just by using antibiotics. As I am writing this, there have been around 150 deaths from this “outbreak” thus far. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, there are approximately 36,000 deaths from flu every year in just the United States. Correct me if I’m wrong, but this does not sound like a reason to start preparing for the apocalypse. All I can say for sure is that liberal or conservative, the one thing that news networks can agree on is that they love scaring the living hell out of people.
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