Ten troublesome trends in TV health news

Posted by Clark Venable on 12/3/2004

Ten troublesome trends in TV health news:

  1. Too brief to matter
  2. No full time health journalists
  3. No data to back up sensational claims
  4. Hyperbole
  5. Commercialism
  6. Single source stories
  7. Baseless predictions from basic science
  8. FDA approval treated as a fait accompli
  9. Little coverage of health policy
  10. No time for enterprise

[Via bmj.com -- latest BMJ headline]

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