[Freddd]

Reminds me of the media induced hysteria over the “bird flu” and other stories they have manufactured in the past. When you have talking heads on TV 24 hours a day, you have to manufacture drivel for them to spout. TV news is all useless bullshit.——

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace
alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary (like a hyped storm)

...there certainly seems to be increasing hype, and more
“necessity” so it seems to have a population “controlled” by a ‘potential’ crisis.

[rockabyebaby]

Reminds me of the media induced hysteria over the “bird flu” and other stories they have manufactured in the past. When you have talking heads on TV 24 hours a day, you have to manufacture drivel for them to spout. TV news is all useless bullshit.——
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary (like a hyped storm)
...there certainly seems to be increasing hype, and more “necessity” so it seems to have a population “controlled” by a ‘potential’ crisis.

Ask the people in Puerto Rico and the Bahamas about the "hyped" storm. I agree the bird flu was a bunch of crap just like the H1N1 was even more crap, however, look at the damage in the aforementioned places and tell me the media was spouting drivel. There is one man dead in NC so far - "hyped" storm - I think not. Cat 1 storms are not just a little rain event, they can be deadly.