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> It's not WHO's job (nor is it possible) for them to ensure every global publication regurgitates their press releases accurately. But the whole purpose of a
by tsimionescu 3y ago
> It's not WHO's job (nor is it possible) for them to ensure every global publication regurgitates their press releases accurately.
But the whole purpose of a press release is to communicate accurately with the press. The WHO, being a global organization, is also very much supposed to work with the press globally.
Not to mention, the aspartame story was not coming out of some small paper from Trinidad, it was coming out of major publications in the USA. If the WHO can't even manage to communicate properly to them in its press releases, why bother putting out press releases at all?
- cwkoss 3y agoThe USA is probably the global capital of media sensationalism. There are plenty of Americans who were properly able to parse the WHO press release. Our corporate media doesn't hire them because they choose more eyeballs with strong emotional reactions (to sell to advertisers) over a well informed audience. It's naive to think WHO could have crafted the release in a way that US major networks would have reported on it responsibly.
- tsimionescu 3y agoNo, it's not naive to think they could have done that. The right press release should have been "no risk of cancer from aspartame as best we can determine. We will continue to fund some research in this area to eliminate any possible doubt."