Cough Medicine and the News!

12:30 pm Update – Seems that the BBC have a link now that has more info, but still not as comprehensive as the Daily Mail papers list, not that I’m championing that paper.

Previously: I watched the TV news today and saw the article about the removal of cough medicine from shelves that may be adversely affecting 2 year olds and below. What I found odd was that either BBC, ITV or Sky News actually mentioned any of the brand names of the ones that were affected!

I carried out an Internet search and much to my amazement I could only find one list that actually contained all the affected brands, that was the Daily Mail.

In this information age, I find it quite strange that a) you have to make a number of searches to find out what’s on the list and b) not even a public broadcaster like the BBC (or ITV/Sky) provides more information about the affected brand, not even on their own web site – certainly at the time of this post.

Is business controlling what TV news organisations can say about their products?

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