Usually a reasonably good news source, Podcasting News is delivering absolute crapola today - they've mixed a tale of skullduggery at the retail distribution level with another pointless report from the British press reporting on how "Coroner Dr Nigel Chapman said thousands of people who unwrapped iPods, MP3 players and Walkmans for Christmas faced similar hazards" to that which took the life of one Matthew Johnson. 
Beyond the tragic tale of Mr Johnson's lorry-based demise, how exactly does this further the cause of public health in a way more urgent than, say, sending medical supplies to sub-Saharan Africa does? Well, the answer, of course, is that it doesn't, and it's a dumb story.
Portable audio devices, with headphones, have only been around since 1960, when Sony introduced a portable transistor radio. Of course, the technology has got better with cassettes, CD and MP3. But 1960 was 45 years ago, remember. It's not like people haven't had time to realise that headphones interfere with your ability to interact with the outside world.
That combined with the fact that the production of the headline "Are Christmas iPods Putting Millions in Danger?" on the basis of one incident and a health warning which is self-evident for anybody with more than two brain cells is irresponsible.
