LSS readers, being an informed and engaged bunch, will each of us have our favoured little cluster of news and media feeds we go back to time and time again. Regular readers of this blog will have largely discerned what our little regular handful comprises. And among them is the famous UK platform The Guardian.
Recently they stepped up to the plate with an interesting take on the work of Dame Sally Davis, which we noticed on this blog earlier this week(LSS 13 5 24). We also wrote personally to the journalist concerned to thank them. Lo and behold, the Guardian followed up on Friday with a major leader article on the whole subject, pushing the new UN initiative, and hymning the praises of Dame Sally[1]. As is only right and proper. Dare we, could we, hope that our letter of praise to the first prompted the second? Unlikely. But it got us thinking.
Readers, there are several hundred of you now, scattered around the four corners of the globe. From the lonely coves of Patagonia to the bustling metropolises like Barcelona, each and every one of you will have mediafeeds. You know, former newspapers, TV stations, news sites, visual channels and all that. Each one of them will have an editor. Each one of those editors will be hungry to catch the latest trend, to find a story, to get ahead of the competition. So why don’t we give them a story? Why not write a brief note now to two of your favourite news supremos? You know the themes to riff on. Antibiotics are running out. Not enough new ones are being developed. If this goes on, all modern medicine and surgery will revert to the dark ages. And so it goes. You’re an intelligent lot, we can’t tell you how to write it.
But write it you could, and send it. Each one in less than two minutes. And it could, it might, just make a difference. Over to you.
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