Posts Tagged ‘media’
The Cycle
Posted by RandomRage | Filed under Misc.
1. Media picks up on unusual disease ravaging rural/poor/3rd world country.
2. Disease sort of comes to US.
3. Medical organization says something quotable and easily taken out of context about disease. Media runs with it.
4. Relentless media coverage creates panic. Surgical mask sales spike.
5. Panic spurs politicians and bureaucrats into saying and doing silly things that [...]