E Cig press continues to increase daily and CNN finally decided it would finally join the crowd and have the CNN Health.com Chief Medical Correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, review electronic cigarettes. Too bad the story is full of errors.
I have embedded the CNN Health.com video here. I highly recommend watching it as a case study in, “what happens when you have non-smokers review e Cigs.” Funny stuff:
I told you it was funny. Ha ha you, “smoke on it” or “take a swig,” the choice is yours.
First, I want to apologize if you are a big fan of CNN Health.com or Dr. Sanjay Gupta.
I am going to point out a big blunder in this video review and a few other errors in the story and maybe have a little fun doing it.
Don’t get me wrong. I do think that Dr. Sanjay Gupta actually gave e Cigs a positive review and did encourage people to keep an open mind, but to also be cautious. I just think he could have done better.
This is the way it works on the internet: Instead of asking the Mass Media CNN Health.com outlet to print a correction or a retraction, the masses media outlets (small “m”) publish it for them complete with links to embarrassingly Read the rest of this entry »
