Posts by Rrrrrachel

Of course te wrong to distort information, but that's not what this is. Te study is about too many too soon AS QUANTIFIED BY ANTIGENS. I'm so sick of hearing about this. You have to quantify it somehow. This is one way. Is it perfect? ...

Yours is more detailed but the headline as is is accurate. It's not ok to distort information, but that's not what's happening. You seriously think USA today is going to write a headline with the word polysaccharide in it?

Quote:Originally Posted by BeckyBird  You mean when they see headlines like this: "Study: Autism risk not increased by too many vaccines too soon." Loads of the headline from various news sources...

I don't think they're actually misinforming people.

That's a good point Emmy. The bias towards negative messages may be true for a lot of different topics not just vaccines.

Those headlines are not at all catchy. Journalists are accountable for their work. Often the same person who writes the article doesn't write the headline. People who want to be informed can take the extra two minutes and read teh article.

So headlines should be like four pages long? That seems reasonable to you? It's not just vaccines, it's literally every news story on every topic. Where is this expectation that the headline should tell the whole story coming from and...

It just seems like there have been a lot of noses out of joint lately over headlines that don't contain every detail of a study, which I find a little eyebrow raising.

Quote:Originally Posted by Dakotacakes For me, the study just intensifies concerns I have about the social networking revolution.  It seems that the ideas that will spread the fastest regardless of topic matter are those that can be...

Kathy that's kind of what the media does. Their job is too sell newspapers/generate clicks.