It's not news if they say it's not news

Health and health care issues don't make the news, according to a recent study by The Kaiser Family Foundation and the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism. Can we say duh? You don't need a study to tell you that health care issues was never big news. It's one of the biggest concerns among the public but doesn't get the attention it deserves in the media. So the study said health care made up less than four percent of all news from January 07-June 08 and mostly focused on specific diseases and conditions. News about health policy and the health care system had the least coverage. This study reminds me of my initial purpose for starting a blog was to cover health policy issues and explore why media don't cover certain stories. I might make it a separate blog from this altogether but think this blog is pretty cool even though the stories are sporadic. I'm going to think about it a bit.