miércoles, 8 de octubre de 2014
The Ebola's lie
As journalist some times we have to touch tough issues, as now, Ebola.
There is a little outbreak of this illness in Spain, USA and of course, West Africa, but, seriously, why population of the whole world thinks that is going to die soon? Probably in one year no one is going to talk about this disease; it happened the same with the "mad cow disease", "pig influenza" or the "avian flu".
All this kind of "journalist's epidemias" starts at the same way:
1-Detetected an outbreak of (lets call it virusW) in the heart of Africa (really often)
2-VirusW is spread everywhere and everyone is going to die, no one knows a cure
3-Information about virusW in all the tvnews and journals, we start to see campaigns for donate money, campaigns for have clean habits...
4-The OMS starts to move money, caused by people's paranoia.
5- The Pharmacy Industries create a kind of miracle solution that eliminates the affliction but the states have to pay a great amount of money, that sometimes is only a placebo (see Tamiflu chase HERE )
6-And LATER, in maybe one month, no one remembers or care about virusW and is forgotten
Actually there are more people dying with other diseases like plain flu, Malaria or HIV than Ebola (Ebola only killed 3500 persons since 1970, the 0.000003% of the actual population of the world). Bio mathematicians studied this illness and they said that this is not going to be a long-time new.
Of course, it exists and is a real drama for the people who lives inside of affected countries, but the first world countries shouldn't be frightened and the paranoia is the real disease.
If you want to be a real journalist, contrast, search and look for real information in different media.
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