NPR hatchet job on e-cigs

[sofarsogood]

There is a comment opportunity on this NPR page for reporting that happened today. I encourage vapors to go there and add their comments. NPR is capable of better reporting. We need to help them understand this issue is VERY important and if they are going to report it they better do a damn good job or they are going to hear about it.

Study: E-Cigarettes May Contain More Carcinogens Than Cigarettes | Here & Now

 

[BackDoc]

I call NPR Nazi Progressive Radio , their overt style of false authority is what gives them away ..... I would trust the judgement of my 6 year old over NPR......I've always asked " what , " public " do they represent" Don't ask how I really feel regarding NPR

 

[Lessifer]

I'm usually a big fan of NPR, this disappointed me. Here's my comment:
Shame on you NPR. You took a sensationalist news story being spread around popular media, and without doing any of your own fact checking, you passed it on. Even when your interview guest tried to point out that the headlines around this study are misleading, you glazed right over it. This could have been an opportunity for a normally fantastic news source to actually uncover some truth, but instead you decided to simply reiterate misinformation.

 

[Augmented Dog]

My comments and opinion of this story have been posted.

 

[Harlen]

It's a joke next thing they tell you is if you breathe at all you can get cancer do we know what in the air you breathe right now ????
Nothing in my juice is not in food or meds .
If I drink 50 gallons of water today and it kills me dose that mean water is a poison?
If I eat 50lbs of stake and it kills me doese that mean that stake is poison?
Use your head people use your head .
vape on

 

[sofarsogood]

If NPR knows sloppy reporting will get noticed on this issue it might help.

I've only been following the vaping topic for a few months, the time I've been vaping.

I'm baffled by the awful response of public health officials in the US. I don't trust anything anything they say. I got firm control of smoking with reletive ease very recently. Many other people are doing the same. The potential is obvious. Public health officials should be thrilled and pointing to the successes. They should be encouraging research to verify safe and best practices, etc.. Instead they are scare mongering, propagandizing and discouraging interest.

In my experience it usually works to follow the money. There is a staggering amount of tax revenue riding on tobacco. Public health officials have an ethical duty to rise above that and they are NOT succeeding.

 

[WhiteHighlights]

If NPR knows sloppy reporting will get noticed on this issue it might help.

That's what I was thinking when I posted my comment. Hopefully others will chime in too.

 

[BackDoc]

NPR could care a less about shoddy journalism , they are "Elitists " and the elite Always knows what is best for the masses ..............

 

[Kent C]

Not the first hatchet job by NPR. Before 2012, you can find a few "balanced" pieces but one that most here (at the time, except Bill G) thought was somewhat objective had a panel discussion packed with Zeller, and a bunch of ANTZ and Weiss of NJoy.... Everything since has been pretty much the party-line. After all it's gov't funded mostly.....

 

[WhiteHighlights]

Well, I think it's worthwhile to call them on the carpet for shoddy journalism anyway and to put a comment on record in case someone reads the article online.
There are many media outlets, of all biases, that need to be taken to task for their crappy output. Maybe a counter-factual somewhere will help 1 person. It may not get to or sway the masses, but at least I'll have put the alternative view out there.