Quote Originally Posted by Nation_1ne
To a certain degree yes, it was still a very important story though and deserved the coverage. Thousands upon thousands of birds dying, and the chance of humans contracting it is something I'd like to know about.

The media are far from idiots.
Yeah, OK, I see your point - I used the term 'idiots' a bit losely.

What I suppose I actually meant is that, whilst being an important issue, the story was over used by the media, thus, creating a pointless worldwide scare.