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Offit challenges reporters to avoid false balance #ahcj14

Paul Offit, M.D., has had it with the journalistic canard of false balance as a reflexive stand-in for objectivity –…

Alan Scher Zagier
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Online hospital inspection reports open door to power reporting #ahcj13

Any reporter who has sought public records from the feds knows the practical nightmare that is the Freedom of Information…

Alan Scher Zagier