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NY Times Sort of Admits It Blew Coverage of StentsNY Times Sort of Admits It Blew Coverage of Stents
In today's New York Times, Barnaby Feder has a lengthy piece about how medical opinion has swung back in favor of drug-eluting stents and that last year's fears about them may have been an overreaction. A big part of the reason for the overreaction, however, was the often-hysterical mainstream media coverage. To its credit, the Times acknowledges this, but does not go far enough.
November 12, 2007
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"The medical reports of blood clots were sometimes amplified by alarmist media coverage, as when one cable news network described drug-coated stents as `tiny time bombs'," Feder writes.Sure, Barnaby, blame it on the TV guys.The ratings-obsessed cable news networks wouldn't have jumped on the story so vigorously had it not been so played up by the print outlets that broke it first, including the Times. And the Times handled the story with its usual anti-business, pro-government intervention angle. It was no more innocent of "alarmist media coverage" than the cable network it now criticizes. Its attempt to correct the record now rings hollow.
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