"Don't get me started on the anti-vax crowd. 4 kids are now out of my kid's school because they're sick with whooping cough - parents refused to vaccinate."
There you go again. Shifting the discussion (btw - whooping cough wasn't a big deal until the US stopped enforcing immigration - which is another potential pulitzer prize winning story). Anyway, the show about vaccinations removed a respected doctor who took the middle road. The show was turned into "Vaccine War" (the actual name): You had a point to prove and removed material from your show which made the narrative balanced. Distraught, confused moms against important, well-spoken calm doctors was your narrative with a deep sure voice to, literally, narrate the entire artifice. Here's another quote from the doctor: I trusted you by giving you two or three hours of my time for an interview and multiple background discussions. I expressed my heartfelt reservations about both vaccines and the polarizing of this issue into pro-vaccine and anti-vaccine camps. I told you that there was at least a third camp. There are many doctors and even more parents who would like a more judicious approach to immunization. Give vaccines later, slower and with an individualized approach as we do in every other area of medicine. What did you create instead? The Vaccine War. A war. Not a discussion or a disagreement over facts and opinions, but a war. This show was unintelligent, dangerous and completely lacking in the balance that you promised meand your viewerswhen you produced and advertised this piece of biased unscientific journalism. Tabloid journalism I believe is the epithet often used. Even a good tabloid journalist could see through the screed youve presented. The vaccine war isn't of interest in this discussion (hence the lack of comment aside from yours about the formerly almost eradicated in the US whooping cough). It would make a good thread on its own though. What the point is here is the lack of integrity of Front Line and the media in general. It shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. J - I've always thought the right wing was the ones who were inflexible and intolerant, and now I'm coming to realize that the orthodoxy at NPR, if it's representing the Left, is just unbelievable - ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:346894 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
