Panic Watch!

Panic Watch periodically publishes a list of current media scares, sorted by popularity. The numbers next to each entry represent the current rank, followed by the previous rank (in parentheses). A colored arrow () indicates the movement trend for that item.

The more "chatter" a topic is generating on Google News, the higher it's ranked. Google News aggregates thousands of local and worldwide news sources, so you can be sure you're worrying about a wide variety of things. Two topics have the same amount of coverage? Whoever had the higher position on the previous report stays on top.