Gary Schwitzer, University of Minnesota School of Journalism & Mass Communication

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Awful week for health news on NBC

Posted on August 01, 2008

First, we send our sincere best wishes to NBC reporter George Lewis, who this week reported on his diagnosis and treatment for prostate cancer. I have respected his work throughout his career. But the standards of sound journalism are not suspended when a reporter chooses to report on himself. Indeed, concern for balance should be heightened when a reporter chooses to report on himself. In this story he talked about his choice of proton beam therapy. But he never mentioned questions about the evidence for/against this therapy, the tremendous cost of the therapy (can be more than $50,000 pe...

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