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Did media overplay swine flu panic?

Many people argue that the media has overplayed the swine flu panic. But others feel the TV channels have been performing their social responsibility.

The channels did their job decently well and, as a result, there is awareness about Swine flu among people. If the people now know how to insulate themselves from swine flu or what they should do if one is affected, the credit should go to the media.

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Irrespective of whether the western media had a hidden agenda behind playing up the panic, for the Indian channels, A H1N1 seemed to have come as a saving grace to keep themselves occupied with when the country was devoid of high politics or scandals.

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Posted by: nandhinikn@yahoo.com On : Sep 16, 2009 14:07 PM

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The media did a fairly good job and look what happened when it stopped giving attention to the issues. People are behaving carelessly again and the flu infection rate is on the rise. The media's wide coverage initally helped in spreading awareness and controlling the spread of the flu.

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Posted by: pcsekar49@yahoo.co.in On : Sep 10, 2009 18:38 PM

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The media has stopped the coverage of swine flu in India. I t should be continued sothat people will be alert and take necessary precautions against the dreaded disease of the century,

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Posted by: medraman@mailinator.com On : Sep 06, 2009 21:08 PM

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There are other major causes of death among the Indian population which is left unnoticed. How many lives could have been saved each day if only our roads and other infrastructure is improved. Why become hysteric after a virus while there are many other killers like Dengue, Chickungunya, Malaria etc.

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Posted by: prasadrd2000@yahoo.co.in On : Sep 04, 2009 13:43 PM

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thanx for T.V.Chanels

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Posted by: tildrmaheshjoshi@yahoo.com On : Sep 04, 2009 10:08 AM

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Media is successful in creating mass hysteria without understanding/explaining the panic of pandemic compared to the other pandemics.

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Posted by: sandeep.ansel@gmail.com On : Sep 03, 2009 13:18 PM

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Yes, i m favoured of women reservation

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Posted by: treddy1964@yahoo.co.in On : Sep 01, 2009 18:10 PM

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yes ,media has done good job. These politicians,buearacrats,doctors, medical fraternity should take note of this without wasting time

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Posted by: aaseha@yahoo.com On : Sep 01, 2009 17:50 PM

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This is General Rumsfield and others' massive scam to dupe the world. I wonder how this team does it so well across so many media channels internationally. I am sure an independent autopsy of many such attributed deaths would show something else was the cause.

Tamiflu was ineffective against Bird Flu and this S-flu too is a bugabear.

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Posted by: srikanth_1968@yahoo.com On : Sep 01, 2009 17:29 PM

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Yes. The media did overplay the entire Swine flu thing resulting in people flooding the hospatials and overburdening the already overloaded Health care system

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Posted by: ipreferbest2020@gmail.com On : Sep 01, 2009 16:26 PM

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Citizens of India are much peaceful and continuing their regular lifestyle is because of the awareness brought by the media. I wonder how much our Govt. had involved in this! Thanks to media that brings things to light, though a few informations are hyped but is a better job than the Govt.

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