J-Source’s Covering Health Crises section has become a cauldron of news and views about
journalism’s role when pandemics strike. The section anxiously awaits your
comments. Food for thought includes:

• Is
  the media going overboard?
• Pregnant
  women, pandemics and politics
• Some
  day, you’ll cover a health crisis

Clearly, journalists across Canada
are struggling with the line between informing the public and over-ringing the
alarm bells. Thankfully, we can leave the true terror to the aggregating power
of the blogosphere: if you want to feel nervous about your cough, check out the
Avian and Swine Flu
Blog, a project of a B.C. English teacher.