If you're going to cover an issue like spinal cord injury rehab, you're jerking the audience around when you use terms like "breakthrough." But the tenets of sound health journalism don't seem to apply at ABC's Good Morning America, where breakthroughs abound.
See the HealthNewsReview.org review of an ABC GMA story. Excerpt:
Without providing any evidence from the literature and relying solely on anecdotal information, this segment falsely raises hope, only adding further frustration and insult to injury.


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