The media are suckers for a little self-flagellation. Every year, dozens of outlets put out lists of the most underreported stories of the year. Essentially saying, Hey, look how bad we are at our jobs! The stories that don’t get nearly as much attention (ironic?), however, are those that were overreported. (And yeah, I know that to be qualify they had to get a lot of attention to begin with. Just hang with me.)So here now, in no particular order, a highly subjective list of the decade’s most overreported stories.Bird fluDuke Lacrosse caseY2KStock the canned goods and munitions! The end of the world is coming and the only way to stop it is…a simple update to your computer? Yeah, that about sums up Y2K.Which isn’t to say that the Millenium Bug wasn’t a serious problem. The fact that all our machines weren’t meant to compute the dawning of a new century did present issues. And some persuasive people have made the argument that just because nothing catastrophic happened doesn’t mean it wouldn’t have without the precautions that became punchlines once 1/1/00 came and went without incident.But coincidentally enough,