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Health in the news : risk, reporting and media influence

Author:

Harrabin, Roger, King's Fund, Allen, Jessica, and Coote, Anna

Publication date:

2003

Abstract:

This publication presents a study of how the news media cover health issues. It tests the premise that television news programmes and newspaper stories distort perceptions of risk to health by under reporting serious public health issues that kill many people, such as obesity and smoking, focusing instead on 'scare' ...