{"id":1474,"date":"2009-08-27T08:04:30","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T14:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=1474"},"modified":"2009-08-27T08:04:30","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T14:04:30","slug":"how-to-panic-weary-travelers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=1474","title":{"rendered":"How to Panic Weary Travelers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> 
<a href="https://dentalprovidence.com/dental-fillings/">https://dentalprovidence.com/dental-fillings/</a> Kudos to Curtis Brainard over at The Observatory for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cjr.org\/the_observatory\/media_hypes_swine_flu_report.php\" target=\"_blank\">his criticism<\/a> of the media&#8217;s latest round of &#8220;overly alarming&#8221; swine flu coverage, which was driven by the recent White House report. As Brainard notes,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
<a href="https://disneycruisinggroup.com/marksnews/"></a> The worst offender was perhaps <em>USA Today<\/em>. The White House report clearly states&#8221;\u201dmany times, and at one point in big, capital letters&#8221;\u201dthat the scenario it lays out is &#8220;a possibility, not a prediction.&#8221;\u009d Yet, on Monday, the nation&#8217;s mostly widely distributed newspaper decided to run the headline, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/health\/2009-08-24-swine-flu-vaccine_N.htm\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. report <em>predicts<\/em> 30,000 to 90,000 deaths from H1N1 deaths.<\/a>&#8220;(The italics are mine.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> 
<a href="http://masterfacilitator.com/eqicertifiedtrainers/"></a> A few days ago I woke up to that USA Today story somewhere in Indiana, numb from my cross-country drive back to NY. But that headline sure did jolt me to attention.\u00a0 I fretted about Swine Flu the rest of the way home. Maybe if the Hampton Inn coffee was stronger I would have been more discerning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 
<a href="https://ramedicare.com/about-us/"></a> Kudos to Curtis Brainard over at The Observatory for his criticism of the media&#8217;s latest round of &#8220;overly alarming&#8221; swine flu coverage, which was driven by the recent White House report. As Brainard notes, The worst offender was perhaps USA Today. The White House report clearly states&#8221;\u201dmany times, and at one point in big, capital&#8230;<span> <a href="https://blackhillsballoons.com/1185-2/"></a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=1474\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2790,3012],"tags":[1250,1670],"class_list":["post-1474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-swine-flu","tag-journalism","tag-swine-flu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}