Posted on 04/20/2006 2:10:52 PM PDT by freemarket_kenshepherd
The media now interrupt their regularly scheduled fear-mongering to report good news: life expectancy is up.
The Free Market Project has documented the media’s scare campaigns on everything from bird flu to obesity, global warming, and even Heelys, a brand of roller skate-sneakers for kids.
But sometimes even a blind squirrel finds a nut. All three broadcast networks found time in the April 19 evening newscasts to nibble on the new numbers released by the federal government.
“We have news here tonight about life and death in America, and it is all good news,” “NBC Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams intoned. “New numbers out today show the annual number of deaths in this country dropped by nearly 50,000 in 2004,” he continued, citing “fewer deaths from heart disease, cancer and stroke.”
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A drop in Medical Misadventure?
It will continuely go up, as long as liberty exists.
You need the whole story on how they figured this. I remember when a friend's father died. He was 98. The coroner came and asked the son what he thought his father died from. The son said "old age". That wasn't allowed. The coroner wrote "heart failure".
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