Ten troublesome trends in TV health news
Posted by Clark Venable on 12/3/2004
Ten troublesome trends in TV health news:
- Too brief to matter
- No full time health journalists
- No data to back up sensational claims
- Hyperbole
- Commercialism
- Single source stories
- Baseless predictions from basic science
- FDA approval treated as a fait accompli
- Little coverage of health policy
- No time for enterprise
[Via bmj.com -- latest BMJ headline]
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