News You can Use?

I write today's message while we're days into the swine flu scare. Is this truly something to be scared about? I don't know. I have read stats that every year an average of 5-20% of the US population contracts the flu. Of those, about 200,000 are hospitalized due to complications and about 36,000 die from further complications and pneumonia. Maybe I missed something, but the swine flu is nowhere close to average annual stats of the regular flu we see every year.

I won't bore you with more stats, but my point is that I believe the media has a tendency to get ahold of a piece a news that sounds juicy and they don't know how to let go.....thus being prone to blowing things way out of proportion. Media were reporting that the US was in a recession (2 consecutive qtrs decline in GDP) back in January of last year and that had not yet happened. Guess what, if we hear enough of that type of news...People get scared, we start panicking, stop spending, and then what do you know....we end up in a recession.

What's the best source of news these days...any suggestions?