Swine Flu

The media is wasting endless hours hashing over details that provide no real understanding of this flu outbreak. The following is from the Charlie Rose show. In twenty minutes you get everything significant you need to know (except for the up-to-date infection rates). The gap between this and the commercial media is staggering...



Why can't we have a more intelligent media? I guess it is partly a level of sophistication (most people can't follow or appreciate the above discussion), partly it is a problem with the level of expectations (most people don't realize there is better information out there, they just accept "the news" as satisfactory because that is what they are used to). It is sad that a media so good at educating is subverted to mostly entertainment and the fishwrap to sell advertising.