media epidemic
A popular term for a flurry of interest by the news media—newspapers, television, radio—for an important event (e.g., a new therapy, ‘breakthrough’, or disease) which follows a report in a major medical or science journalSegen's Medical Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.
media epidemic
A popular term for a flurry of interest displayed by the news media–newspapers, television, radio for an important medical event–
eg, a new therapy, 'breakthrough', or disease, which follows a report in a major medical journal. See Embargo arrangement, Ingelfinger rule. McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Alternatively, since defamation has now become a
media epidemic and is threatening to irrevocably damage civil society and the body politic, Justice Nisar may consider setting up special summary courts to deal with defamation matters.
In sum, regulators and the ad industry should not delay pulling the breaks on the "antisocial"
media epidemic. It took them more than four decades to ban tobacco ads, communicate the negative effects of growth hormones and antibiotics in livestock, or ozone-damaging CFC, and so on.
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