Which makes more money? Ebola Scares or Ebola Truth?

"I don't believe what I read in the papers," Paul Simon sang. "They're just out to capture my dime."

Now that a daily newspaper is more like $1.25 or $2.00 even...there's more desperation.

What disgusts AND amuses me, is how one newspaper might scream scare headlines...and another scream what they consider common sense.

Is Ebola a deadly new plague to worry about? The Daily News can't stop with the alarming headlines. Rather than compete, The Post offered an eye-catching headline about how bogus the whole problem is...complete with a slant of stats and an interesting interpretation of how the disease can spread:

You'll note that the Post took a shot at the Times...coming up with the stat that the Times played the SARS card 2,000 times.

I wonder if the Post played the Ebola card a few dozen times, at least, before figuring it was played out and it was time to stop scaring everyone.

It's just an example of how news reporting is just another business. The bottom line is still how to "capture" a reader's dime. Do it by lies, do it by truth...do it by any combination in between. "All I can tell you is...it's all show biz..."