Why Don't We See More Pandemic News ?

There seems to be several reasons for no media. 1) They only chase the latest story and pandemics are already old-hat to them, 2) Governments have decided that the huge economic losses in trade, travel and tourism from honestly reporting on the current situation can be curtailed by not reporting. 3) There is media concern about the boy-who-cried wolf syndrome. They even think we concocted the Y2K issue. 4) Most 'readers' are tired of this story. It is so difficult to even get friends to understand how severe this problem might be. 5) There has been so much misinformation, such as 'it is the same as seasonal flu', that the public, with their short attention spans, grasps onto these simple explanations. And the media perpetuates these myths.

It is true that Swine Flu, Avian Flu, HxNy, etc. is not in every newspaper and on every newscast every day. But, if you do a search on any of the normal search engines, you will find 20 stories on the expected pandemic every day from all over the English-speaking world (U.S., U.K., Canada, India, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, etc.). So, there are lots of stories, but they are not being presented to those who wait for the news to come to them. In the U.S., there are newspaper stories on this topic every day if only you would look. There are also lots of stories in the U.K.

If you wish to see even more, set your search engine to find stories in French, Spanish, German and use your browser to translate them.

True, the major mainstream press has relegated the story to the back burner but the stories are there.