‘Pandemic: Does the Global Media spread Information or Panic?’
25 September 2009
‘Pandemic: Does the Global Media spread Information or Panic?’, an Opinion Former Panel in association with Editorial Intelligence and BBC Global News, stimulated robust exchanges between academics and journalists. Is it the authorities and “experts” who play to public fear by publicising the most extreme case scenarios or the media who overhype and sensationalise?
Chair:
Zeinab Badawi, Presenter - World News Today, BBC World News & BBC Four
Panel:
David Brennan, CEO, AstraZeneca
Simon Jenkins, Commentator, The Guardian
Catherine Mayer, London Bureau Chief, TIME Magazine
Professor Peter Openshaw, Director of the Centre for Respiratory Infection (CRI), the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London
Paola Totaro, London correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CShV_pTpHKA
