Monday, January 19, 2009

This American Life: Ruining It for the Rest of Us

Sooner or later I'll stop posting stuff related to vaccines, but lately it seems that's where all the interesting stuff is going on... For those that don't regularly listen to This American Life, it's a great show on NPR featuring a couple stories each week (normally three or four) on a particular theme. In late December they had a couple stories based around the theme of Ruining It for the Rest of Us. One of the segments was about San Diego parents that did (or didn't) have their children vaccinated for measles.

I have to wonder if this is where last week's episode of Private Practice came from, these parents in San Diego... Perhaps with a couple of media outlets tackling this we'll start to see more and more of the vaccine debate working its way into the mass media? Agenda setting at work...

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