Hysteria runs riot; networks fuel...

Hysteria runs riot; networks fuel the fear: "Where is our citizen war footing? Sixty years ago, enterprising and patriotic Americans saved tinfoil and bacon grease to help defeat Hitler during World War II, heeding the old Office of War Information motto, 'Use it up. Wear it out. Make it last.' They were not making a run on the local supplies of bottled water and duct tape in a hysteria somewhere between snowstorm panic and the last shopping day before Christmas. But then, the good folks on the home front were not pummeled by a 24-hour media with time to fill."