Is Swine Flu Coverage in Balance?
What’s the ratio of press coverage to deaths for swine flu?
I love this because (a) it’s a really good example of how to do a feature visually and (b) because it shows you how massively distorting our current news values can be.
[via [O’Reilly Radar](http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/05/what-is-the-right-amount-of-sw.html)]
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Some Good Reading About The Future of News Paid Members Public
Good stuff I’ve read recently, haven’t linked to yet, but don’t have much to add to right now: * The Nichepaper Manifesto [http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/haque/2009/07/the_nichepaper_manifesto.html] – an articulate and well argued guide to how niche publishing might looks going forwards. * Media