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Executives at Fox News Corp announce an end to coverage on the ebola outbreak. Starting today, the news team at Fox will no longer report on infected doctors or nurses here in America, or the thousands of Africans overseas sick and dying with the disease. Fox will pull their ebola correspondents from Africa and re-assign them to other duties.
"It's a matter of shepherding our resources" said Alfredo D. Darke, a Fox executive, who wished to remain anonymous. "See, there is always a danger that too much news about the ebola and the spread of ebola might lead Americans to turn to science for answers. Some Americans are even wondering if the federal government should appoint a top doctor to coordinate the government's response to the disease. We don't want the American people to get the wrong ideas."
Privately, some pharmaceutical companies had expressed worries that doctors using federal grant money might come up with a treatment or vaccine before the pharmaceutical industry could patent one. "If the public is too frightened, they might demand the application of any treatment before it can be properly monetized and made fully effective by our accounting department." said Hugh N. Kry, of the Pharmaceutical Legislative Assoc.
Sue DeNym, a Fox News spokesperson, said that covering the ebola story is simply not needed anymore. "We've polled our sponsors, and they don't want to waste time on this right now." said Ms. DeNym. "We can always come back to it at a later date if it becomes necessary."