Journamalism by Press Release
Dec. 2nd, 2007 07:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsI expect press releases to be bad and to tout one group's discoveries over another. I don't expect them to be so bad that they write the Fox New headline themselves: "Club Drugs Inflict Damage Similar To Traumatic Brain Injury." The opening paragraph is about MDMA, or Ecstacy, which is an analogue of methamphetamine. However, the entire presentation by the research team is about methamphetamine itself. I don't know if MDMA causes brain damage because the actual science says nothing about it.
There's a huge, huge spectrum between candy raver and meth whore, and this public relations writers knows where on that line she falls.
There's a huge, huge spectrum between candy raver and meth whore, and this public relations writers knows where on that line she falls.
