Spam Journalism: The spurious use of sensational headlines to add spice to an otherwise pointless article.
There is always plenty of spam to go around in health reporting. Journalists just love to sensationalise anything to do with medicine, preferably putting it in the worst light possible:
Seeing red over high health costs
Cataract surgery for Christchurch woman Glennis [...]

Health Minister Tony Ryall will set a maximum patient waiting time limit of 6 hours in hospital emergency department waiting rooms. This seems to me a fairly weak commitment considering that the UK set and met a commitment for a maximum waiting time of 4 hours. I rather suspect that Ryall is not keen to [...]

Forget John Key and the H-fee. Don’t both with Winston’s Helicopter antics. The real dirty little secret of the election campaign is that people are suffering and even dying every day because of government ideology. Don’t believe me? Take a look at the comment of David “I’m in Charge” Cunliffe on the news that 10% of [...]