From Drew Altman, PhD, president of the Kaiser Family Foundation. Read the entire column, but here’s an excerpt: With so much of the media now configured for instant news and the relentless pursuit of controversy, stoked by spin and manufactured news by partisans on both sides, the many great journalists in the news business working [...]
My appearance early this morning on the statewide Wisconsin Public Radio network can now be heard online (Real Player file). The network asked me to talk about – and take calls from listeners about – my HealthNewsReview.org project. I probably talked too much and didn’t leave enough time for calls, but the ones we took [...]
In order to improve health journalism, we must learn from examples good and bad. One of the worst we’ve seen in some time was published last week by the Des Moines Register. Excerpts of our review: A paid advertisement could not have been more promotional and less informative than this one-sided celebration of a type [...]
CBS’ Harry Smith. CNN’s Sanjay Gupta. Some UK reporter. Hasn’t anyone from The Onion been stricken yet? Stay tuned for next week’s episode: “The cure for journalistic narcissism.”
Great piece of local health policy journalism by the Dallas Morning News. Excerpts: “There’s a lot of money to be made in owning imaging machines,” said Dr. Richard Strax, president of the Texas Radiological Society. “You can buy a relatively inexpensive second- or third-hand MRI machine for a few hundred thousand dollars and make millions [...]
If you have a mailbox, there’s a good chance that you’ve received a letter from Peggy Fleming urging you to get some health screening scans to help prevent strokes. I did – and I blogged about it six months ago. Now Jeff Baillon of KMSP-TV in Minneapolis-St. Paul shows once again how TV news can [...]
MinnPost.com columnist David Brauer wonders why the Washington Post – and not a local news organization – asked tough questions about whether the Mayo Clinic is a replicable model for health care reform.
Presidents have said some whacky stuff – even on network TV. But journalism organizations – rather than treating such appearances as “open mike” night – have an obligation to listen, to react, to ask tough questions. So when former President Bill Clinton was interviewed on ABC’s Good Morning America today, shouldn’t we have expected some [...]
For the second time in a week (maybe it’s happened more and we fortunately missed it), the New York Daily News has copied animal research stories in the London Daily Mail and spread the excitement about possible human uses across the ocean. Yesterday, the NYDN touted “a new cream that promises instant anti-impotence with no [...]
I feel a promotional campaign underway for the trials of an implantable device to control high blood pressure that is resistant to drug therapy. NBC did a breathless story on the device a few weeks ago. And now the Des Moines Register published one that is strikingly similar to the NBC piece. * No data [...]
We look for more critical analysis of FDA expedited approval of a new drug like this.
Five-star story on small study that tries to counter large body of evidence on soy supplements for hot flashes.
Our reviewers, including a leading women’s health clinician-researcher, felt this piece would have been benefited from more data and context.
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