Quotes about Journalism from the world's top natural health / natural living authors
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 "The New York Times article generated a lot of copycat journalism, and a huge amount of interest across the country. Again and again, the message went out: It's real! It works! How can we use it? Having become involved in this area myself, I was often asked for my opinions on all the excitement, but never more poignantly than in the winter of 2000, when I received the following email from a young man in South America (I have deleted the author's name to protect his privacy):
My name is . . . , I live in Cali, Colombia. A few days ago I listened [to a talk] about the placebo effect."- Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.) |
 "Two tests, two quizzes and three journalism articles due, not to mention working around 20 hours a week into the early morning hours as a bartender. Was I feeling disconnected, anxious, irritable or out of control?" The university's staff told Katie that on the basis of her answers to the test she might have anxiety. She declined the therapist's offer to schedule an appointment.
The next year, Central College, in Pella, Iowa, published the results from its testing for mental illness on National Depression Screening Day."- Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) |
| "Nevertheless, the article was effective as a piece of journalism in part because the story it told was, on a structural level, neither new nor specific at all. It drew, rather, on the tropes, values, and literary sensibilities of a particular narrative of mind-body medicine that I call "Eastward journeys."
What is this narrative? It begins, like "healing ties," as a response to the mood of broad antimodernist lament that has characterized many American stories about stress since at least the discontented 1970s." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.) |
 "For that to happen, however, the underlying nutritional science and the policy recommendations (not to mention the journalism) based on that science would both have to be sound. This has seldom been the case.
The most important such nutrition campaign has been the thirty-year effort to reform the food supply and our eating habits in light of the lipid hypothesis—the idea that dietary fat is responsible for chronic disease."- Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.) |
 "This excellent piece of investigative medical journalism points out that although the spinal fusion procedure is more complex and more expensive, and the recovery time is longer, there has never been proof of its superiority over laminectomy. Why the push to do the more complex procedure before it has been proven to be superior to the simpler procedure? Part of the answer, according to the Times article, is that doctors are paid approximately $4000 per spinal fusion procedure versus $1000 per laminectomy, and hospitals are paid $16,000 versus $7000."- John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) |
| "But while nutritionism has its roots in a scientific approach to food, it's important to remember that it is not a science but an ideology, and that the food industry, journalism, and government bear just as much responsibility for its conquest of our minds and diets." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.) "The sheer novelty and glamour of the Western diet, with its seventeen thousand new food products every year and the marketing power—thirty-two billion dollars a year—used to sell us those products, has overwhelmed the force of tradition and left us where we now find ourselves: relying on science and journalism and government and marketing to help us decide what to eat." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.) "All three helped to amplify the signal of nutritionism: journalism by uncritically reporting the latest dietary studies on its front pages; the food industry by marketing dubious foodlike products on the basis of tenuous health claims; and the government by taking it upon itself to issue official dietary advice based on sketchy science in the first place and corrupted by political pressure in the second. The novel food products the industry designed according to the latest nutritionist specs certainly helped push real food off our plates." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.) |
 "Kiang, the dean of environmental studies at Peking University in Beijing—who was brought to the University of California-Berkeley Graduate School of journalism by Orville Schell, the former dean, for several weeks of guest teaching—told me that the effect of initiatives like REACH and RoHS in China will be to open to greater public scrutiny a system that has been traditionally secretive and unaccountable. This may end up being the most profound impact of the changes initiated in Brussels. "REACH pushes us to move into a knowledge-based system," Kiang said. "- Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.) |
 "The combination of muckraking journalism and regulatory threats were unnerving and worrisome to farmers, but as one might expect, the threat of more vigorous arsenic or pesticide restriction and suspension never really materialized into enforcement action by U.S. regulatory agencies. By the mid-1930s, many farmers realized that the
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 "But rest assured, resources abound, and with a little hard work, anyone can help put good ideas into the "blogosphere" and help others find new answers and ways of making change. journalism is too important to be left to the professionals. as
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¦mm Mahmood Al-Yousif, a Bahraini entrepreneur, is one of millions of people around the world who are taking political matters into their own hands, creating their own online media, and talking directly to global audiences. In June 2003, he started a blog."- Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "For 21st century journalism, if a reader wants to, he can convert himself into a reporter and this is realized through the Internet ... Where professional reporters once exercised their influence exclusively, now they compete with citizens, so professional journalists could be in trouble if they still try to confront general readers with their authority and arrogance ... Thus, it is necessary that the reporters quickly figure out how the world is changing and that they change themselves along with it." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) |
 "Because the biases of allopathy are buried so deeply—and cleverly—in the quotidian language of journalism and daily speech, invariably we miss its concept-shaping power. Allopathic ideology lives in our language, most acutely in the attitudes and phrases in mainstream and popular science journalism. If we're not assiduously critical in our reading, we may become susceptible to the hidden ideology of illness implicit in the language of medical journalism."- Richard Leviton, Physician: Medicine and the Unsuspected Battle for Human Freedom (Get the book.) |
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Citizen Media mmm One impact of the availability of low-cost, powerful personal computers has been the appearance and evolution of citizen media, beginning with the desktop publishing revolution and the appearance of many zines (small, generally noncommercial magazines) in the late 1980s." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) |
| "Corporate attempts at limiting research and journalism that might be negative to genetic manipulation have been effective. However, studies such as Pusztai's and Ermakova's are finally beginning to emerge and they illustrate that there are severe problems with GMO foods and products, as the following excerpt from Jeffrey Smith's Seeds of Deception shows:
Rats fed GM corn had problems with blood cell, kidney and liver formation. Mice fed GM soy had problems with liver cell formation and pancreatic function, and the livers of rats fed with GM canola were heavier." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.) "Their brand of public-protection muckraking journalism had a major impact on the public's perception of farm and home poisons. The books 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs by Kollett and Schlink, Eat, Drink, and Be Wary by F. J. Schlink, and 40,000,000 Guinea Pig Children by Rachael Palmer and Isadore Alpher alerted the public to the dangers of pesticide residues in food, especially arsenic and lead. They were the Rachel Carsons of the 1930s.4 Today there is widespread agreement on the dangers of lead in paint, solder, and water pipes." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.) |
| "After five years of operation, Amman-Net was granted a license by the Jordanian government, and it is now on the air, providing critical journalism and a community voice for Amman's million residents. EZ
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| "Franklin helped change the course of printed journalism in America. He adopted the European newspapers' excessive emphasis on advertising, and by 1760 he was devoting half of the Pennsylvania Gazette to advertising. Several of his early ads were for farm implements, farm products, and farmland, but Franklin also devoted a large percentage of his advertisements to white and black slave sales or rewards for escaped slaves." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.) |
 "The same biases infect medical journalism, marketing, and common sense - and lead to medicalization.
The Virchow quotation is from Ackerknecht, Rudolf Virchow (1953), 127.
CHAPTER ONE: INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY AND KINDRED DELUSIONS
A voluminous literature supports nearly all the points I have made in this chapter. The decline in cardiovascular disease mortality is well documented."- Nortin M. Hadler, The Last Well Person: How to Stay Well Despite the Health-Care System (Get the book.) |
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This position of financial independence and honest journalism is almost unheard of in the health industry, by the way. Doctors are frequently on the take from drug companies, through free vacations, meals, or gifts. Non-profit disease organizations take millions of dollars from drug companies. The American Diabetes Association even takes money from candy manufacturers!"- Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.) |
| "Remember, though, few of these headlines resulted from in-depth investigative journalism. Many journalists today are merely looking for the attention-getting headline (byline) or 2-minute soundbite that will advance their careers.
• NIH Scientists Broke Rules, Panel Says, (Get the book.) |
 "Even when broadcast journalism seems to get it right, at least making a show of asking the important questions; it appears this kind of responsible in-depth interviewing is temporary. Six months after the Today Show interview with Drs. Sharfstein and Glenmullen, Couric conducts another interview that leaves one wondering if the darling of morning television is deliberately trying to minimize the issue."- Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.) "Lenzer's coverage of the psycho-pharma industry is some of the best in journalism today, but is by no means the only example. The Washington Times—the "other" newspaper in Washington, D.C.—consistently provides responsible coverage of the psycho-pharma debate, including a July 7, 2005, dead-on commentary by Keith Hoeller titled "War of Two Religious Worldviews," which nailed the facts of the Cruise-Lauer interview. Hoeller writes (in part): "All his statements went against the dominant ideology, as espoused by "Today" host Matt Lauer. To get his point across, Mr. Cruise had to interrupt Mr." - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.) "Cruise is correct in his comments that psychiatric mental disorders are not brain-based diseases and, yet, it is the icon of investigative journalism, Mike Wallace, apparently based on his personal use of antidepressants, who decides Cruise knows not of what he speaks. But this raises another interesting aspect of the Cruise-Lauer interview: It is the media that has appointed itself planet psycho-pharma referee, arbitrarily deciding which celebrity is right and which is wrong." - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.) |
 "A work of investigative and personal journalism ... the book is meant to help reform the system and inform your choices when using medications ... Available through your local bookseller or the publisher, Bantam Books, at www.bantam.com
Beyond the Bleep—the definitive unauthorized guide to What the Bleep Do We Know? by Alexandra Bruce www.cbsd.com (800) 283-3572 or (651) 221-9035
The Fluoride Deception, by Christopher Bryson
A chronicle of the abuse of power and of the manufacture of state-sponsored medical propaganda that reveals how a secretive group of powerful industries ..."- Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.) |
| "Times2 and Jeff Swiatek of the Indianapolis Star, have done some good investigative journalism, drawing attention to drugs that entered the marketplace despite known dangers. They have also highlighted some very questionable activities related to the interaction of the pharmaceutical corporations and the government. When such reports are not disseminated beyond a local readership, though, they do little to provoke outrage and stir the public to action.
The New York Times revealed that some media are being paid to report promotional material under the guise of investigative reporting." - Brent Hoadley, Ph.D., Too Profitable to Cure (Get the book.) |
 "Self-awareness is not a trait taught in journalism school. And, to give them their due, people these days do feel the need—indeed the right—to be informed. They read the paper as if it were a kind of daily hygiene—like brushing their teeth or dumping out the ashtray.
Every headline is written by a hack with his own dog in the fight. It is not news that sells papers, but papers that sell news. And sometimes the papers sell news that is so far removed from the actual events that even they are eventually embarrassed."- William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.) |
| "I believe that I am truly one of the only unbiased sources of health journalism and reporting in the world.
You can trust me ... I am NOT a doctor!
Chapter 5
THE HEALTH BASICS
A hospital is no place to be sick. —Samuel Goldwyn
Everything you need to know about the cause of disease, as well as the best way to prevent and cure disease without any drugs or surgery, can be found in my first book, Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You to Know About. If you have not read this book I strongly suggest that you read it cover to cover." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.) |
 "A survey in 1978 by the Columbia journalism Review failed to find a single comprehensive article about the dangers of smoking in the previous seven years in any major magazine accepting cigarette advertising. http://www.trunkerton.fsnet.co.uk/pharmaceutical_drug_racket.htm
11 Dana Marie Kennedy, Director of Seniors Outreach for the Democratic National Committee, in her article 'Bush and the Pharmaceutical Companies,' 2000, published during the last North American presidential election, reckoned that Bush took over $300,000 from pharmaceutical companies for his presidential campaign."- Martin J. Walker, HRT Licensed to Kill and Maim: The Unheard Voices of Women Damaged by Hormone Replacement Therapy (Get the book.) "In Britain, at least, medical journalism has become almost completely debased. What you read, on the whole, in your newspaper, is often simply an arid regurgitation of PR items from Big Pharma. Matters of life and death, which should be argued in the most stringent regulatory terms, are discussed with the 'Do you prefer the red or the blue packet?' approach. Journalists seem to live in perpetual fear of writing 'unbalanced' reports that might offend the pharmaceutical companies." - Martin J. Walker, HRT Licensed to Kill and Maim: The Unheard Voices of Women Damaged by Hormone Replacement Therapy (Get the book.) |
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