Bloggers at Effect Measure have some praise for “flu reporters” and their coverage of a recent NIH press release about the H1N1 vaccine in children.
The writer points out that the reporters he praises took the time to recognize that the real news was buried in the press release: that younger children will need two doses of the H1N1 vaccine.
The writer (the editors of Effect Measure sign their posts “Revere” to recognize Paul Revere, a member of the first local board of health in the United States) does call out one report for being just a rewrite of a press release but notes:
I’ve spent a lot of time here complaining how so much science reporting I see everyday is barely massaged press releases regurgitated by reporters acting as stenographers.
