OPINION: Doesn’t Al Sharpton deserve a rest?

The terror of Ebola in the United States has subsided. Maybe it’s too soon to tell, but it looks like we’re not all dead, after all. Dispatches from West Africa have vanished from the front pages. The digital purveyors of news have gone on to more important catastrophes, such as the latest celebrity wardrobe malfunctions, feuding between Whoopi Goldberg and Rosie O’Donnell, and gays fighting in borrowed hot tubs. The disappearance of Ebola from the public consciousness is a tribute not to the power of medical science, however, but to the power of the press.