The New York Freak Show Arrives in Town Today

[shmessy]

Oh man. That press conference of Brady's today.

"In your opinion how much doubt is cast on the legitimacy of your previous 3 SB wins"

"To you, who has the more impressive dynasty, the Patriots or the San Antonio Spurs?".

How do these people get press passes?????????????????????????

This is still going on as I type this.

 

[reflexblue]

Oh man. That press conference of Brady's today.

"In your opinion how much doubt is cast on the legitimacy of your previous 3 SB wins"

"To you, who has the more impressive dynasty, the Patriots or the San Antonio Spurs?".

How do these people get press passes?????????????????????????

This is still going on as I type this.

It doesn't seem like it takes much to be a reporter does it. Any nitwit off the street could do just as good a job or better. And its just not confoined to sports reporters. I remember as a kid a reporter asking one of the Appolo astronauts what brand of shirt he wore.

 

[nepatz11]

Before I embarked on a lovely career in the health sciences industry, I started off college as a journalism major. Trust me guys to be a journalist you really don't need to be very bright, have any critical thinking ability or logical reasoning. You really dont even need to be a great writer to be a journalist. You need to be opinionated, graduate from school and catch a break. That is it. Most of these guys are well spoken idiots.

It is actually IMO a huge problem in many areas because journalists are almost always not experts in the area they cover. In the health industry, this leads to misinformation galore to the general public!

 

[PatsWickedPissah]

Not just the health industry but reporting in the science & technology arena is excerable. Yes, there are a few excellent journalists but most of those reporting on areas I know about are awful and don't have even basic facts straight, but they do have opinions and they show them in their writing.

 

[onegameatatime]

At least with Super Bowl media day, you know it's about all access entertainment.

 

[reflexblue]

Before I embarked on a lovely career in the health sciences industry, I started off college as a journalism major. Trust me guys to be a journalist you really don't need to be very bright, have any critical thinking ability or logical reasoning. You really dont even need to be a great writer to be a journalist. You need to be opinionated, graduate from school and catch a break. That is it. Most of these guys are well spoken idiots.

It is actually IMO a huge problem in many areas because journalists are almost always not experts in the area they cover. In the health industry, this leads to misinformation galore to the general public!

I came back to edit my post. I was going to add : And you need a four year degree to come up with questions like this.

 

[reflexblue]

Before I embarked on a lovely career in the health sciences industry, I started off college as a journalism major. Trust me guys to be a journalist you really don't need to be very bright, have any critical thinking ability or logical reasoning. You really dont even need to be a great writer to be a journalist. You need to be opinionated, graduate from school and catch a break. That is it. Most of these guys are well spoken idiots.

It is actually IMO a huge problem in many areas because journalists are almost always not experts in the area they cover. In the health industry, this leads to misinformation galore to the general public!

The recent media scare about MRSA staph infections is a perfect example. MRSA has been around for the last 20 years.( I WAS in the health care INDUSTRY and thats why I got out it became an INDUSTRY focusing on how much money we can make off of the pt.) A young girl died, and some other cases were reported and all of a sudden everyones in danger of falling pray to mrsa. It got so bad last month we had to go to a meeting about it at work and the state nurse who gave the mrsa lecture came out and admitted that it was media driven.

 

[nepatz11]

Yes the MRSA thing is a great example. A large portion of the adult population carries MRSA in the nasal membranes. It is really not a big deal to get exposed to it anyone who works in a hospital I guarantee has it.


The media cherry picks biomedical/health stories that they think are interesting and presents them to the public in a way that makes them seem sexy. Most often the research behind these stories is flawed, biased, weak or not reproducible. And when these sexy stories are invalidated they it rarely makes news. The end result is a public that is largely misinformed. I know we are way off topic but it is actually a big problem.

 

[Wildo7]

Isn't this strain of MRSA some kind of mutated monster strain that no one has immunity and that eats everything in its path just like Eric Mangini?

 

[reflexblue]

Isn't this strain of MRSA some kind of mutated monster strain that no one has immunity and that eats everything in its path just like Eric Mangini?

W7,In the mid-90's there was the "Flesh Eating Bacteria" scare which was nothing more than mrsa. Pronounced Mursa. So in a way you're not to far off.

 

[reflexblue]

Yes the MRSA thing is a great example. A large portion of the adult population carries MRSA in the nasal membranes. It is really not a big deal to get exposed to it anyone who works in a hospital I guarantee has it.


The media cherry picks biomedical/health stories that they think are interesting and presents them to the public in a way that makes them seem sexy. Most often the research behind these stories is flawed, biased, weak or not reproducible. And when these sexy stories are invalidated they it rarely makes news. The end result is a public that is largely misinformed. I know we are way off topic but it is actually a big problem.

I worked in hospitals for over 20 years, primarily in the O.R. I'm sure I'm a carrier of all sorts of nasty "bugs" mrsa, hepatitis,etc.

 

[fourthandmiles]

Here is a good link about a new investigative journalism source.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/15/b...pics/People/P/Perez-Pena, Richard&oref=slogin

Anybody subscribe to National Geographic or Smithsonian? I swear there is a three week delay after they come out and similar stories pop up in Boston Globe Magazine or a "three part special". Bunch of hacks.

 

[letekro]

The recent media scare about MRSA staph infections is a perfect example. MRSA has been around for the last 20 years.( I WAS in the health care INDUSTRY and thats why I got out it became an INDUSTRY focusing on how much money we can make off of the pt.) A young girl died, and some other cases were reported and all of a sudden everyones in danger of falling pray to mrsa. It got so bad last month we had to go to a meeting about it at work and the state nurse who gave the mrsa lecture came out and admitted that it was media driven.

Remember west nile, killer bees, etc. Global warming is another example of this. <Ducks for cover>

 

[GuyClinch]

Dude. Global Warming is real. It probably wont end mankind but by 2030 there will be no skiing in the world. <g>

 

[upstater1]

Before I embarked on a lovely career in the health sciences industry, I started off college as a journalism major. Trust me guys to be a journalist you really don't need to be very bright, have any critical thinking ability or logical reasoning. You really dont even need to be a great writer to be a journalist. You need to be opinionated, graduate from school and catch a break. That is it. Most of these guys are well spoken idiots.

It is actually IMO a huge problem in many areas because journalists are almost always not experts in the area they cover. In the health industry, this leads to misinformation galore to the general public!

This assumes that journalists come out of journalism school. It's not really true for the vast majority. Most top schools in the US don't even have journalism majors.

 

[upstater1]

Remember west nile, killer bees, etc. Global warming is another example of this. <Ducks for cover>

A lot of people were invested on denying global warming for a while. But after the White House recognized it as a phenomenon last year, the chatter suddenly stopped.

 

[shmessy]

.....I hope you enjoyed our presentation of "Thread Hijacking 101", please tip yer waitresses and drive carefully.

 

[letekro]

A lot of people were invested on denying global warming for a while. But after the White House recognized it as a phenomenon last year, the chatter suddenly stopped.

No one is denying the phenomenon. There was also significant "global warming" after the last ice age. Only the causes of the phenomenon are disputed. Human activity has a negligible effect on global temperature. For the most part, the Earth itself will determine whether California slips into the sea, not us. "Global warming" is no more a crisis than the "national debt", it's just another cause for politicians to latch on to.

 

[upstater1]

No one is denying the phenomenon. There was also significant "global warming" after the last ice age. Only the causes of the phenomenon are disputed. Human activity has a negligible effect on global temperature. For the most part, the Earth itself will determine whether California slips into the sea, not us. "Global warming" is no more a crisis than the "national debt", it's just another cause for politicians to latch on to.

As I said, the white house now accepts that human activity has caused it. And since then I haven't read anything countering it from the sources that used to, the National Review, WSJ, etc.