ABC PLANS 'BIRD FLU' THRILLER FOR MAY SWEEPS

[Guest guest]

This is classic...

" ....and we've gone to great effort to make sure the film is accurate, "

I hope they went to great lengths to talk to the CDC.

Bird flu threat not so grave, CDC chief says

M. ALEXANDER OTTO; The News Tribune

Published: April 15th, 2006 01:00 AM

http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/5663788p-5080102c.html

" There is no evidence it will be the next pandemic, " Dr. Gerberding, head

of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, said of avian flu.

There is " no evidence it is evolving in a direction that is becoming more

transmissible to people. "

SCIENCE IS IRRELEVANT....FEAR SELLS.

http://www.drudgereport.com/flash3.htm

ABC PLANS 'BIRD FLU' THRILLER FOR MAY SWEEPS

Tue Apr 18 2006 08:26:15 ET

You may not want to order in hot wings for your couch viewing next month: ABC

has announced a May Sweeps' bird-flu thriller!

" Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America " is set to air May 9, reports Starr

at the NY POST.

The movie stars Keach, y , Ann Cusack and e Machado in

a tale of a worst-case scenario, if the bird-flu virus was transmitted to humans

in America.

" We feel we're providing a level of awareness and we've gone to great effort to

make sure the film is accurate, " co-producer Judith Verno said. " We've included

a lot of information we believe people need to know. "

" We had wonderful consultants who were actually ahead of the [bird-flu] curve, "

Kerew said. " The way the disease popped up in China, then moved to Turkey and

Africa, were things we already knew about. "

" Our movie has a character who was in Iraq and got the bird flu there and

survived - and, as we were shooting, the bird flu hit Iraq, " Verno said.

Developing...

[Guest guest]

Fear sells almost everything, some of it very subtle. It sells children's

encyclopedias,

(fear that your child will be behind & maybe not go to college, have a poor

financial future)

It even sells some vacuum cleaners, some claim health benefits, others claim to

get

destructive dirt cutting away at the base of your expensive carpet fibers

(carpet then

gets referred to as 'investment') Of course it sold the Anthrax vaccine, even

the war in Iraq.

The list is endless. If an ad is designed to make you feel a product is needed,

the

fear is in there..

These bio disaster films sure have gotten popular. Didn't Clinton read some

book of

fiction along these lines and make some decisions as a result???

Gretchen

ABC PLANS 'BIRD FLU' THRILLER FOR MAY SWEEPS

This is classic...

" ....and we've gone to great effort to make sure the film is accurate, "

I hope they went to great lengths to talk to the CDC.

Bird flu threat not so grave, CDC chief says

M. ALEXANDER OTTO; The News Tribune

Published: April 15th, 2006 01:00 AM

http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/5663788p-5080102c.html

" There is no evidence it will be the next pandemic, " Dr. Gerberding,

head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, said of avian

flu. There is " no evidence it is evolving in a direction that is becoming more

transmissible to people. "

SCIENCE IS IRRELEVANT....FEAR SELLS.

http://www.drudgereport.com/flash3.htm

ABC PLANS 'BIRD FLU' THRILLER FOR MAY SWEEPS

Tue Apr 18 2006 08:26:15 ET

You may not want to order in hot wings for your couch viewing next month: ABC

has announced a May Sweeps' bird-flu thriller!

" Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America " is set to air May 9, reports

Starr at the NY POST.

The movie stars Keach, y , Ann Cusack and e Machado

in a tale of a worst-case scenario, if the bird-flu virus was transmitted to

humans in America.

" We feel we're providing a level of awareness and we've gone to great effort

to make sure the film is accurate, " co-producer Judith Verno said. " We've

included a lot of information we believe people need to know. "

" We had wonderful consultants who were actually ahead of the [bird-flu]

curve, " Kerew said. " The way the disease popped up in China, then moved to

Turkey and Africa, were things we already knew about. "

" Our movie has a character who was in Iraq and got the bird flu there and

survived - and, as we were shooting, the bird flu hit Iraq, " Verno said.

Developing...