Coming from a fairly independant political standpoint, I still watch Fox News. I have to say that I am a bit tired of the Swine Flu scare tactics. Why would a news orginization want to instill fear into it's viewers? There must be some deeply psychological methods for getting people to tune in.
Maybe when people are exposed to something they fear, they continue to visit the source, "just in case" there is a new development. Of course, there always is a new development. A new study found that we are all going die! Oh man lets tune in. 
Judge the situation you are in by the circumstances around you, not by how afraid they tell you to be.