Today's article was a very personal story about a pregnant woman barely surviving swine flu. It was a good story of a near death experience, but I don't think it deserved to be in the national newspaper. It seemed a lot like the sort of stories that you hear on the tv about another "missing blonde girl." It's almost as though they're running out of stories about the swine flu and are now turning local news into national news.
Sure, the story was very touching and it is sad that she lost her baby, but this information does not impact my life at all. The author did try to tie in some sort of relevance to the story by claiming that the story was a warning to people who are taking the flu lightly. Still, I think it is a bit of a stretch. I think the editor of this story should have asked the author to turn it into some sort of a tear jerker or an exciting story about her struggle and used it as a feature rather than an article.
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