Mainstream Health Coverage Rated Unsatisfactory

So where is the news here?

"Most health coverage in the mainstream media fails to address the costs, harms, and benefits of medical products and procedures, according to the publisher of HealthNewsReview.org, a Web site that grades journalists.

The coverage also usually ignores the quality of the evidence and the existence of other options, said Gary Schwitzer, B.A., of the University of Minnesota School of Journalism, who worked for 30 years as consumer healthcare journalist in radio, television, interactive multimedia, and the Internet...

The findings come from an examination of 500 stories during the first 22 months of the Web site, which started publishing evaluations of health news stories in April 2006. Schwitzer, an associate professor of journalism, is publisher of the Web site.

The 22 months of reviews are 'the clearest picture yet available of how major newspapers, magazines, and television networks cover treatments, tests, products, and procedures,' he said."

Trusting the MSM and its spokespersons, like Oprah, is an idiot's endeavor. (see here, here, here, here, here, here and here)