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Dem Agog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 10:18 AM
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CLASSIC Example of MSM Fear Mongering and Terrorizing!
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On MSNBC's front page, the following story with the hysteria-inducing MSM panic-laden headline:

"Bird flu expected in U.S. in 6 Months"
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11741441

Basically, they're saying that the spring migration will bring the bad H5N1 cooties to your doorstep, your babies' doorsteps, and kill innocents and children within 6-12 months.

But a link from that story points to this story from just four months ago:

"Bird flu not taking wing on migratory pathways"
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10624217/from/RL.1

Which basically contradicts everything that today's attempt at media terrorism by MSNBC says. It says that the cooties are fare more likely to come on a jet to your doorstep, your babies' doorsteps and kill innocents and children within 6-12 months.

It's just another classic example of attempts at terrorism by the mainstream media, who have learned that terrorizing and fear mongering are the only way they'll get advertising dollars from panicked readers.

We're being played. Again.
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