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Article: Medical news as entertainment. (medical reporting on television as source of misinformation and manipulation) (editorial)
- Article from:
- Nutrition Health Review
- Article date:
- June 22, 1990
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Medical News As Entertainment
Has medical reporting on television become a source of misinformation and manipulated drama?
Is the public being served properly by the release of information that is spouted in a matter of seconds, surrounded by "hype" and overemphasis that distorts scientific information requiring background details, explanation of limitations, and the kind of guarded optimism that characterizes a scientific discussion by professionals?
Medical reporters too often act like ambulance chasers who run after an announcement that may have been launched for publicity purposes, or the pursuit of a grant by self-interested individuals who ...