Veteran journalist Robert MacNeil recently emerged from his 16-year retirement to tell the story of his grandson, Nick, and his daughter Alison. But instead of a grandfather’s musings on his autistic grandson, PBS framed the series as “the most comprehensive look at the disorder and its impact that’s aired on American television in at least [...]
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America’s oldest anti-vaccine group has fired back at the AAP following its criticism of an anti-vaccine ad placement on the Times Square jumbotron. The misleadingly-named National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) accuses the AAP of “bullying parents instead of being partners in preventing vaccine reactions.” The group was responding to an April 13 letter the AAP [...]
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After accepting Specialist Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards, Brian Deer told his fellow scribes: “I’d just like to say that this award does have my name on it but in many ways I think this is an award for the industry as a whole. Because this is a story where some [...]
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The American Academy of Pediatrics has asked CBS Outdoor to pull an anti-vaccine video from the Times Square jumbotron. The 20-second ad is sponsored by the deceptively-named National Vaccine Information Center, and quack-medicine vendor Mercola.com. According to NVIC, “the message is shown every hour for 18 hours a day on the 20 by 26-foot full [...]
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