Fox News: Keeping You Safe From Terrorist Cough Drops

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When Liz is feeling masochistic, sometimes she turns on Fox News. I can’t stand it for more than like five minutes, so I generally put my headphones on at that point. Not, however, before the SHOCKING NEWS that BABIES ARE DYING … because their parents are giving them over-the-counter medicine, which—surprise!—can be bad for babies. Of course, this was reported in the most terrifying way possible, a headline that screamed about how over-the-counter COULD KILL. It made it look like someone was out poisoning the Tylenol again.

 

And then they show a lady taking Ricola cough drops off the shelf, with an admonishment that you shouldn’t recklessly pour cough medicine into your baby (and anybody who doesn’t realize that babies will choke on cough drops needs to turn their kid over to social services, anyway). Like this is news.

 

Every once in a while I am re-surprised at the things people need to be told. You could say this makes me elitist, for I am looking down on the Uneducated Masses like the bourgeois snob I am, but I think it’s in part that often I forget that other people aren’t me, and cannot be expected to share all the knowledge in my head.  (I think everyone is like this from time to time.  I’ve had other people look at me in surprise at my ignorance, too, and possibly for the same reason.)  So I think it’s good that the FDA would continue to warn people who maybe haven’t figured it out yet. But you’d think Fox News could report it without the OMGWTFBBQ factor.

 

On second thought, no, I suppose you wouldn’t.

Comments

[shriekingsnape.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean. People are stupid. You're in Utah, yes? Every year at the start and usually throughout, there are stories about makeing your pool safe in AZ. But they don't treat it like, remember this from last year? They are like "BREAKING NEWS!! KIDS DROWN WHEN YOU DON'T FENCE YOUR POOL!".....duh. If you're not fencing your pool in with kids, it's another example of someone who needs to hand those kid of to CPS.