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Morning Fix: Holing Up Inside Us

Swine flu testing underway of five local cases. Meanwhile, patients are flooding hospitals.
Shelter Joy Junction argues homeless need cellphones. Communication vital for numerous needs, from finding work to family demands.
State employee retirement benefits extended to domestic partners. As always, KOB's commenters are quite animated.
Court: Zangara Dodge must help past customers. At least 60 customers have claims against closed dealership.
A New Mexico history museum opening next month in SF. More info.
Sitting on a matured U.S. savings bond? The fedz want to pay out.
State, enviros win case against oil companies eying Otero Mesa.
Still jailed: Johnny Tapia.

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Comment by once banned twice shy on April 29, 2009 at 10:32am: What is it about news website comment sections that bring out the most extreme haters? It doesn't matter the topic, either. Odd.

Swine flu. Well, can you blame people for flocking to the hospitals since the media has whipped up a frenzy out there? Quite a nice distraction from torture memos, don't you think?

Comment by Tricross on April 29, 2009 at 11:21am: Should we air the possibility of a flu outbreak in our country or letters about how we tortured prisoners of war. I can see what a tough call that would be.

Comment by Mark on April 29, 2009 at 11:42am: ^^^
good point OBTS.
homeless with cell phones?

Comment by Andy on April 29, 2009 at 3:24pm: I reckon the news has enough space for both stories.

Comment by once banned twice shy on April 29, 2009 at 4:15pm: Yep, Andy, the papers and the teevee news do have enough space for both stories. Tricross: it's not letters about how we tortured prisoners, but the issue of whether anyone should be held accountable. Here's what the news ISN'T telling you about flu deaths: normal, old garden variety flu kills thousands of people right here in the U.S. every year. So why the big kerfluffle over this particular variety?

Hey, homeless people need to make phone calls, too.

Comment by Andy on April 29, 2009 at 4:28pm: Because swine are scary ... did you see the photo of the pig KOB used for their report, that's the scroungiest, dirtiest pig they could find I bet. I must've been absent the day they taught fear mongering in journalism school. It's an art form really, maybe it was an elective?

Comment by Lee on April 29, 2009 at 4:32pm: Sooo... then you are thinking the swine flu news is being hyped specifically to distract us from holding people accountable for how this country tortured prisoners of war ?
Even a mediocre conspiracy theory needs to go a little deeper than that. Who might be responsible for this ? and how is they have got all the worlds media to go along with this ?

Comment by Andy on April 29, 2009 at 4:46pm: I don't know if anyone was saying it was a purposeful distraction (maybe they were saying that, not sure?). I think the large corporate media outlets tend to chase the shiniest object available and while it would be a stretch to say it's a conspiracy, I think a lot of news agencies can be easily led astray from real news to cover things with more entertainment value.

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