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it appears that President Obama handled the ebola crisis correctly.
the media will not tell you this.
'america is ebola free'.... just reported on nbc nightly news.
it's amazing how the republicans, along with the media, whipped up fear and frenzy just weeks prior to an election.
quite impressive.
President Obama links ‘headlines’ to Ebola fear
In an emotional, just-concluded address on Ebola this afternoon, President Obama referenced the media’s role in stirring up panic over the deadly virus. “I know that, with all the headlines and all the news, that people are scared,” said the president, who spoke at the White House with a group of health professionals surrounding him. “I know that Ebola has concerned them.”
Media criticism wasn’t the central theme of the president’s presentation. He was celebrating the work of those who give their time and risk their own health to provide assistance to Ebola victims in West Africa. “They make huge sacrifices and, when they come home, they deserve to be treated properly. They deserve to be treated like the heroes that they are,” he said.
Obama has spoken out against automatic quarantines for health workers who return to the United States after service in West Africa, on the rationale that such drastic measures will discourage aid to the part of the world where containment efforts are most needed.
The reference to “all the headlines and all the news” appears based in the cable-news Ebola overload of earlier this month. Though overcoverage has a place in bona fide mysteries like Malaysian Airlines 370 and even in harrowing public tragedies like the Boston Marathon bombings, such volume coverage has a panic-inducing effect when it comes to covering a virus.
Media criticism wasn’t the central theme of the president’s presentation. He was celebrating the work of those who give their time and risk their own health to provide assistance to Ebola victims in West Africa. “They make huge sacrifices and, when they come home, they deserve to be treated properly. They deserve to be treated like the heroes that they are,” he said.
Obama has spoken out against automatic quarantines for health workers who return to the United States after service in West Africa, on the rationale that such drastic measures will discourage aid to the part of the world where containment efforts are most needed.
The reference to “all the headlines and all the news” appears based in the cable-news Ebola overload of earlier this month. Though overcoverage has a place in bona fide mysteries like Malaysian Airlines 370 and even in harrowing public tragedies like the Boston Marathon bombings, such volume coverage has a panic-inducing effect when it comes to covering a virus.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2014/10/29/president-obama-links-headlines-to-ebola-fear/
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Ah.. therein lies the answer
Thank you, spanone
