Media Matters for America summary, November 21, 2007
 
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:03:03 -0500

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<p>Here are today's news items from <i>Media Matters for America</i>, 
click on the title or 'read more' to read the entirety of each story.</p>
<h1><a href="http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/stem_cell_research?src=other">Stem Cell Research</a></h1>
<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200711210007?src=other"><em><em>NY</em></em><em><em> </em></em><em><em>T</em></em><em>imes</em> reporter Stolberg's "News Analysis" of political impact of stem-cell discovery omits researcher's admonition</a></b><br />
In a November 21 "News Analysis" examining
the political significance of the announcement by scientists in Wisconsin and
Japan that they had successfully reprogrammed skin cells to function like
embryonic stem cells without having to destroy an embryo, <i><i>New York Times</i></i>
reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2007%2F11%2F21%2Fwashington%2F21bush.html%3Fex%3D1353387600%26en%3D68385f362bc262fc%26ei%3D5124%26partner%3Dpermalink%26exprod%3Dpermalink" target="_blank">wrote</a>: "The findings
have put people on both sides of the stem cell divide on nearly equal political
footing." She wrote that <a href="http://mediamatters.org//items/200706210016?f=s_search">President Bush</a> "has steadfastly
maintained that scientists would come up with an alternative method of
developing embryonic stem cells, one that did not involve killing
embryos." She added: "[N]ow that scientists in Japan and Wisconsin have apparently achieved what Mr. Bush envisioned, the White House
is saying, &#39;I told you so.&#39; " But at no point did Stolberg mention what Gina Kolata <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2007%2F11%2F21%2Fscience%2F21stem.html%3Fex%3D1353387600%26en%3D17b12f874a063524%26ei%3D5124%26partner%3Dpermalink%26exprod%3Dpermalink" target="_blank">reported</a> in a separate <i>New York Times</i> article on the same day
-- that Dr. James A. Thomson, who led the research at the University of
Wisconsin, said that, in Kolata&#39;s words, "it would be premature to abandon
research with stem cells taken from human embryos." 
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200711210007?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>




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