I used to work for the Hutch News. Unless you know the reporter, don’t assume. You would be wrong much of the time.
Maybe so, but in today’s “journolist” world of reporters pushing the socialist agenda, it is natural to “assume” where a reporter stands. A good reporter in these times who exercises due diligence should specify in the first paragraph (or the first time the phrase “stem cells” is used) that the stem cells at issue are “non-embryonic” or some similar disclaimer to let the reader know that there is no political controversy here.
See, my suspicions were in part caused by the whole “going to Germany” for treatment aspect of the story, as if the kind of treatment discussed is banned in the USA because of mean conservatives or Republicans or something. A casual idiot might begin making those kinds of assumptions from reading this story, and those are exactly the kind of assumptions a sneaky liberal Democrat reporter wants. It’s easy to imply some things through what’s not said.
FRegards,
LH