Comments on: Fourteen Do’s and Don’ts for Medical Bloggers http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/fourteen-dos-and-donts-for-medical-bloggers.html Science Blog from Freelance Science Writer David Bradley Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:25:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: David Bradley http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/fourteen-dos-and-donts-for-medical-bloggers.html/comment-page-1#comment-237162 David Bradley Tue, 04 Dec 2007 13:37:34 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/fourteen-dos-and-donts-for-medical-bloggers.html#comment-237162 That was exactly the point I was trying to make, guidelines like these, written by those in ivory towers are never going to mean very much to most journalists. That was exactly the point I was trying to make, guidelines like these, written by those in ivory towers are never going to mean very much to most journalists.

]]> By: CWJon http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/fourteen-dos-and-donts-for-medical-bloggers.html/comment-page-1#comment-237062 CWJon Tue, 04 Dec 2007 12:26:30 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/fourteen-dos-and-donts-for-medical-bloggers.html#comment-237062 As you say, statement 2 is slightly hypocritical! There are points worth considering in there (especially for a new science writer ^^) but if each news story, press release, blog etc is just a document which ascribes to the 14 Commandments, why not feed the data into a database and get a computer to write it? Surely any journalist writing in a sensationalist manner, or with overtones of "health scare", knows exactly what they're doing because that's what they're paid to do, and won't give a monkey's about the ACMedSci's guidelines? Just a thought. As you say, statement 2 is slightly hypocritical! There are points worth considering in there (especially for a new science writer ^^) but if each news story, press release, blog etc is just a document which ascribes to the 14 Commandments, why not feed the data into a database and get a computer to write it?

Surely any journalist writing in a sensationalist manner, or with overtones of “health scare”, knows exactly what they’re doing because that’s what they’re paid to do, and won’t give a monkey’s about the ACMedSci’s guidelines? Just a thought.

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