http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/24433/all en http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/cbs-hypes-misleading-government-alcohol-study <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subtitle"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Taxpayers pay for unnecessary study on alcohol-related fatalities. </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/mike-ciandella">Mike Ciandella</a> </div> </div> </div> <p dir="ltr">The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) recently published a new report that not only misled, but was completely unnecessary. And CBS repeated it rather than criticize its irrelevancy.</p><p dir="ltr">The NIAAA study claimed that the number of alcohol related deaths has been vastly under-reported. However, this was misleading. A separate government agency NIAAA agrees with has been publishing the correct number of deaths for years, and media outlets have been using that correct data. So the new taxpayer study went looking for a problem that wasn’t there.</p><div class='signature'><p>— Mike Ciandella is Research Analyst at the Media Research Center. <a href="http://www.twitter.com/@mikeciandella" target="_blank">Follow Mike Ciandella on Twitter.</a></p></div><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/cbs-hypes-misleading-government-alcohol-study" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Articles MRC Business Government Media alcohol car accident cbs death Fatalities government study NHTSA NIAAA traffic traffic safety Thu, 27 Mar 2014 19:53:45 +0000 julia.seymour 45856 at http://archive2.mrc.org