BAD MEDICIINE: Romenesko has a fascinating link today. A "Wall Street Journal" writer is highly critical of an award-winning "Seattle Times" series on botched medical trials. The author finds a lot wrong with the series:

I believe that the Seattle Times portrayal of events, while it certainly made for a dramatic tale, is fundamentally false. Rather than racking up prizes, it should be used as a textbook case on how the media can convey biased and misleading information about biomedical research. It left out crucial facts, distorted others and ignored everything that didn't fit its sensational thesis...the Seattle Times committed the sin journalists are often accused of, and must always be on our guard against: disregard for the complete story in the interest of the most dramatic one. Perhaps the media needs to adapt its own version of the Hippocratic oath for investigative medical reporters: First, do no harm.