text_1: Music May Help Ease Pain for Anxious People
text_2: Far more questions than answers are provided by this story – see some of our questions below. In the end, it’s not clear why this recycled news release is even newsworthy. In the huge wave of medical science stories that flood the American public every day, editorial decision-makers need to evaluate what the impact is of overwhelming readers with an endless stream of stories about findings, about progress in research, about un-analyzed medical minutiae. Journalists have an obligation to filter, to assess, to analyze, to evaluate – not merely to open the floodgates to unvetted news releases.