Good Morning America flawed story on spinal cord injury rehab

| No Comments

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.

Leave a comment

My policy on comments

I'm adopting the policy of a blog I admire: “Comments are great; obnoxious comments get deleted. Deal." I also won’t post profanity, product pitches, or anything from anyone who doesn’t list what appears to be an actual e-mail address.


About this Entry

This page contains a single entry by Gary Schwitzer published on July 21, 2009 9:49 AM.

Policy question: is joint replacement the new Lasik surgery? was the previous entry in this blog.

Pharma Phacts - drug marketing awareness campaign is the next entry in this blog.

Find recent content on the main index or look in the archives to find all content.

Archives

Pages

Wikio - Top of the Blogs - Health

Add to Technorati Favorites