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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: sukhen@yahoo.com On : Aug 30, 2009 08:05 AM

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Media is doing its job the way it's do be done. Let us not disturb them from their duty.

Governments will always want to not create a panic and that is sane but today, everybody is mature and let everybody take a rational decision on the basis of facts and figures. It's utterly stupid preventing media to not project the facts and figures.

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Posted by: upendra_singh007@hotmail.com On : Aug 29, 2009 23:43 PM

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Plz close all the primary schools because they are turning out to be real breeding grounds. They can give homework to children.

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Posted by: meher.manoj@gmail.com On : Aug 29, 2009 12:00 PM

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i agree

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Posted by: ravitk@yahoo.com On : Aug 29, 2009 11:11 AM

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ravitk@yahoo.com

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Posted by: rrajnikanth@hotmail.com On : Aug 28, 2009 22:11 PM

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It started with a view of tracking and embaraasing foreigners,next was the lady in Pune. whyand how the family moved her around is unknown but it a juicy story. media overpalyed it hundred percent

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Posted by: mr.siraj1976@rediff.com On : Aug 28, 2009 19:33 PM

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Yes by repeatedly palying videos it scared people beyond belief and utterly failed to highlight the hidden scam which was more important

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Posted by: badhusha2@sify.com On : Aug 28, 2009 19:20 PM

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How do we know about this virus if we do not have media. Becuase of the alaraming rate of increase in the affected people, is it not the media's responsibility to caution public?

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Posted by: rara64@sify.com On : Aug 28, 2009 18:43 PM

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before the channels started highlighting swine flu,awareness among the general public was very poor.

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Posted by: andrew_sumanth@rediffmail.com On : Aug 28, 2009 18:32 PM

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i agree with the media.

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Posted by: ravi1@yahoo.co.in On : Aug 28, 2009 17:52 PM

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i agree

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