If there was any doubt that American media has become the equivalent of a babbling idiot, the past month should have thoroughly erased it. The coverage of the outbreak of Ebola, and the small number of cases that have been diagnosed in this country, should prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that our news outlets have lost their minds . In the face of this disease, novel and thus frightening in this country, the public needs facts rather than intense speculation, but what they have been given by our media can hardly be considered the level headed presentation of facts that we need. Instead, we've been treated to ridiculous speculation about how a larger outbreak could happen, like conservative darling Dr. Ben Carson being given a platform on Fox News to spread his idiotic ramblings: Little better, CNN brought on fiction author Robin Cook to hype fear about the disease, calling his fiction work Outbreak " prophetic " and giving him a forum to question whether the ...
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