Vaccination clarification

10/29/2009

I wrote a blog (below) about a photo-op I attended earlier in the week at Toronto General Hospital. It was brought to my attention that I miss-used the term 'placebo'. In among those who actually received a shot that day were several people who posed for photos pretending to get a vaccination but in fact did not. They did not receive a 'placebo' injection but did not receive the H1N1 vaccine either.
I apologize for the inappropriate term but the fact remains that all too often there are official photo-ops and gatherings where certain events are fed to the media inappropriately and then the media is blamed for the lack of truth in journalism.
I think we all should try to do better-media included.

Richard Lautens/Staff Photographer

Posted by Richard Lautens at 03:07:37 PM

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WHat? Blame the organizers?

Posted by: jono | 10/29/2009 at 04:03 PM

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10/29/2009