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(46,337 posts) Mon Oct 20, 2014, 10:07 AM Oct 2014

This media hysteria over ebola is nothing new... (pic heavy)

Our "news media" has always been prone to hysterics.

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This media hysteria over ebola is nothing new... (pic heavy) (Original Post) Archae Oct 2014 OP

well, ultimately, halley's comet did prove pretty lethal to mankind unblock Oct 2014 #1

Bwahahahaha! Great point. valerief Oct 2014 #6

Meanwhile corruption in government and illegal business practices are ignored by the media. Scuba Oct 2014 #2

It's the media's job to ignore them. progressoid Oct 2014 #4

I wonder what the DU threads would be like today if the "Judy Johnson" came out snooper2 Oct 2014 #3

I remember the AIDS panic FLPanhandle Oct 2014 #5

unblock

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1. well, ultimately, halley's comet did prove pretty lethal to mankind

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Mon Oct 20, 2014, 10:11 AM

Oct 2014

i mean, very, very few people who were alive when halley's comet passed close by in 1910 are still alive today, so, so there!

valerief

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6. Bwahahahaha! Great point.

Reply to unblock (Reply #1)

Mon Oct 20, 2014, 12:56 PM

Oct 2014

Scuba

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2. Meanwhile corruption in government and illegal business practices are ignored by the media.

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Mon Oct 20, 2014, 11:43 AM

Oct 2014

progressoid

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4. It's the media's job to ignore them.

Reply to Scuba (Reply #2)

Mon Oct 20, 2014, 12:26 PM

Oct 2014

Since most of the media is in cahoots with those them.

snooper2

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3. I wonder what the DU threads would be like today if the "Judy Johnson" came out

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Mon Oct 20, 2014, 12:00 PM

Oct 2014

LOL...

facts! I don't need no stinkin' facts she said it happened!

FLPanhandle

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5. I remember the AIDS panic

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Mon Oct 20, 2014, 12:36 PM

Oct 2014

Soon it would become airborne, mosquitoes would carry it, we need to quarantine homosexuals, stop all travel to/from Haiti, etc.

Pretty much the same over-reaction going on now with Ebola.

The panicked always say the same thing "I'm just concerned and better safe than sorry" before proposing some stupid action.

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