@JohnPhilpin You can't report on heart disease because 95% of the truth will cause people to react angrily and blame the journalists. Unfortunately people don't tend to do well when they are told, basically, "The best way to stop this is by you being more responsible with your decision making."
@simonwoods @johnphilpin live a healthy life and hope you have good genes isn’t exactly the basis for great journalism.
@yorrike certainly in these times, but is it right? Should journalism be that way - at all?
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@JohnPhilpin No it shouldn’t. But when your survival as a business relies on selling printed clickbait, you do what you have to.