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Journalists are playing up the dramatic, the frightening and the controversial aspects of the mad cow disease story to get on the front page or lead their newscast, says David Ropeik of the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis. “I was a television journalist for 25 years. I did this myself. I plead guilty.” What reporters aren’t doing, he writes, is including information in their mad cow reports that puts the meat-eating risk in perspective.
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