El apocalipsis en manos de los medios masivos de comunicación. Cobertura del brote de Gripe A en Buenos Aires.

Abstract

The beginning and end of a new millennium carries on contrasting feelings; a need of purification in combination with a wave of a secularized anxiety before to the inevitable destruction of World. The bottom-day seems to be associated to a final fight between god an evil forces in which case a kingdom of thousand years will emerge with confraternity, harmony and peace. Of course, the corrosion of human beings’s customs is no other thing than the corruption of the own body and the elapsing of time. Just there wherein culprit is not internalized surfaces the horror as a form of projection. Following this line of reasoning, Influenza A or Swine Flu –even their possibilities of mutation- looks to wake up in the core of industrialized societies an idea enrooted in the belief of an apocalyptic pandemic wreaks havoc in uttermost part of global population.