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The 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 corpo
by cwkoss 3y ago
The 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."