The purpose of Newspapers is not to inform but to sell Newspapers. If the headline had read 'Patients rights and wishes respected, no change in NHS policy' no one would have read it. The same goes for Swine flu. 'Thousands die over the course of the year from annual flu out break' will sell no newspapers. Only twice have I heard on the media that the UK is in fact, along with France, the most prepared country in the world when it comes to dealing with a pandemic....Newspapers only really ever had two uses, the first has been replaced by plastic boxes and plain paper they now serve chips in and the second largely disappered with outside toilets and the arrival of soft toilet paper.