The Media’s Pink-Ribbon Problem: Coverage Is Skewed, Study Says
BREAST CANCER
With Komen founder Nancy Brinker under fire, a new study says breast-cancer progress is stalled, public perception is warped—and the media are part of the problem. By Abigail Pesta.
As the media chew on news that Nancy Brinker, the controversial founder of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, will step down as chief executive after a brutal year, a new study says progress in fighting breast cancer is unacceptably slow, public perception is skewed—and the media are partly to...