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  A few years ago we were all going to be killed by Islamic terrorists. A few months ago our world was going to be crushed into small pieces by recession. This week, we're all going to die from a nasty new plague. I wouldn't be surprised if next week we had alien invaders blasting capital cities to bits.
  
  I do find it increasingly difficult to take these news stories seriously. I don't wish to seem callous about people who become ill, but let's face it, a few people become ill with flu that has a scary sounding name and all of a sudden the news media have a bloody field day making us all quake in our boots. According to one source on TV this evening, the pig flu isn't as serious as the media would like us all to think it is, and the number of people catching it and dying from it is perfectly comparable to most other types of flu. It's just new that's all, and it has a strange name like some diabolical compound from a James Bond villain. Swine Flu. Ooh, scary!!! Pig disease. Yuck!
  
  The news media gets way too excited about such stories and blows them so grotesquely out of proportion that they probably stop resembling the truth and start looking like B-movie plots. I have no doubt that swine flu is real, and is probably pretty nasty, but does it really warrant all this hype and over-dramatic nonsense? Of course it does - news is now a form of competitive entertainment rather than public information and it seems the only way to get us to watch is to put on a freak show!

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