Public health officials and the media in conflict in their “shadow” roles
The idea that public health officials and the media could have, or should have, defined roles in communicating with the public is appealing. However, making the assumption that there is some sort of static “role” fails to recognise the complex world we function in, and may actually create the apparent conflict described by Sweet and colleagues.1
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I was formerly an ABC Science Media Fellow.