Here are @CTVNews two MASSIVE reporting failures on this story:
1. The name of the clinic to which Amanda Gould is going is not mentioned anywhere.
2. The names of the doctors are not mentioned.
(This info is essential to evaluate reputation and techniques.) 2/
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However, the worst journalistic sin committed in this
@CTVNews report is not to have required, as a condition of having Gould on, that she let them report the name of the clinic where she is going and the names of the doctors who will be treating her. 13/Show this thread -
I understand that stories like this are compelling human interest stories. Only the most hard-hearted among us could fail to be moved by Amanda Gould's plight, but I've seen her plight many times before. However, I've ALSO seen many times how patients like her are victimized. 14/
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By failing to identify the clinic and doctors and by framing Gould's story as a choice between "giving up" and "fighting,"
@CTVNews has done a great disservice to the patients and families facing the horror of metastatic cancer. 15/15Show this thread
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