Yellow Journalism

"The Swine Flu Pandemic! What can YOU do?" Quoted from a newspaper article in April 2009. This classic piece of yellow journalism manifests like a man with a good hand in poker throws all his chips in on the second bet. "The Swine Flu Pandemic", anyone could tell you these words are absolutely ridiculously exaggerated. This article makes the swine flu look like the black plague, when the disease only killed about 11,000 people, and the black plague killed over 70,000,000! The article pertains to the Spanish-American war because it blows the story out of proportion in order to rally people of their country into a patriotic mood, one needed to win a war. How do you get support for the swine flu? you tell everyone it's much worse than it truly is, and wait for the concerned people to start following suit.