Comments on: Measles – spot check from the HPA http://northerndoctor.com/2009/03/07/measles-spot-check-from-the-hpa/ "Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition" Adam Smith. A blog from a British doctor. Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:32:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: northerndoctor http://northerndoctor.com/2009/03/07/measles-spot-check-from-the-hpa/#comment-570 northerndoctor Sat, 07 Mar 2009 20:21:14 +0000 http://northerndoctor.com/?p=804#comment-570 It looks like an example of how the media works - there was an HPA <a href="http://www.hpa.org.uk/webw/HPAweb&HPAwebStandard/HPAweb_C/1233822584984?p=1231252394302" rel="nofollow">press release in February</a> when all the outlets picked it up. It looks like the usual churnalism - the media have to be spoonfed and rarely go looking for it. And the broad message - "small disaster, not many killed" doesn't really fit their remit. I've just started <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Flat-Earth-News-Award-winning-Distortion/dp/0099512688/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1236457198&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow">Flat Earth News by Nick Davies</a> so I will go off and quietly harrumph a bit more. It looks like an example of how the media works – there was an HPA press release in February when all the outlets picked it up. It looks like the usual churnalism – the media have to be spoonfed and rarely go looking for it. And the broad message – “small disaster, not many killed” doesn’t really fit their remit.

I’ve just started Flat Earth News by Nick Davies so I will go off and quietly harrumph a bit more.

]]> By: jdc325 http://northerndoctor.com/2009/03/07/measles-spot-check-from-the-hpa/#comment-569 jdc325 Sat, 07 Mar 2009 20:05:11 +0000 http://northerndoctor.com/?p=804#comment-569 Nice post Northern Doctor. Re: "Sadly, the headline ‘Measles Falling as Vaccination Works” won’t make the news and it won’t get blogged about much either." Google News doesn't seem to be showing any reports of this in the Mainstream Media yet. The same goes for a Google Blog search (with the exception of this post, obviously). Nice post Northern Doctor.
Re: “Sadly, the headline ‘Measles Falling as Vaccination Works” won’t make the news and it won’t get blogged about much either.” Google News doesn’t seem to be showing any reports of this in the Mainstream Media yet. The same goes for a Google Blog search (with the exception of this post, obviously).

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