On The Media, aka OTM, WNYC’s award-winning journalism monitoring journal, reports that television’s coverage of “medical breakthroughs” is, alas, somewhat deficient.

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Bob Garfield, in Prognosis Negative, reports that television coverage of “medical breakthroughs” is. alas, somewhat deficient.

Blue M&M’s may cure paralysis! That’s just one claim made recently in a health segment on network TV. For more than three years, HealthNewsReview.org editor Gary Schwitzer has been methodically reviewing TV health news claims for accuracy and responsibility. But no more; he’s found the vast majority of TV consumer health reports sickening.

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