Real reporting, no he said, she said, stilll happens: mainstream media hits a homer on antivaxxerism

A lot of media critics, including yours truly, likes to critique and criticize much of the main stream media for false equivalence reporting. Until fairly recently, a lot of this was done on climate change, for example.

But, if you thought reporters and editors would get flamed by wingers for not giving climate change denialism a pass, what about not giving antivaxxers a pass?

Nonetheless, a pair of NBC News reporters did some REAL reporting.

And, on something tough within antivaxxerism — parents of deceased infants and toddlers mourning their dead children, then grasping at antivaxxer straws for balm. Brandy Zadrozny and Aliza Nadi talked to the medical examiner who looked at Evee Clobes' death and noted he disagreed with Catelin Clobes. Then then looked at an antivaxxer friendly doctor who does inquests for hire; he claimed he hadn't talked to Clobes and otherwise refused to talk to the reporters. Ms. Clobes definitely didn't.

But Zadrozny and Nadi didn't stop there.

They instead looked at how some antivaxxer advocates go shopping for parents of SIDS-death children to recruit them for the cause. Per Mark Twain, it would be an insult to vultures to call these people vultures.

Anyway, it takes a LOT of assurance to do this. Maybe being female helped.

In any case, it's a great story. I saw it via Orac, who has more background on the vultures.