RT @amyvdh: great article by Vaughn Bell: "media technology scares from the printing press to Facebook"

"Through reporting as shamelessly biased as this, British journalists have done their job extremely well. People make health decisions based on what they read in the newspapers, and MMR uptake has plummeted from 92% to 73%: there can be no doubt that the appalling state of health reporting is now a serious public health issue.
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The media created the MMR hoax, and they maintained it diligently for 10 years. Their failure to recognise that fact demonstrates that they have learned nothing, and until they do, journalists and editors will continue to perpetrate the very same crimes, repeatedly, with increasingly grave consequences."

"Online Journalism" then and now, by Dustin Steinacker. (I would have linked the original, but the page layout resembles that which it's parodying)