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Keith Dinger AND Andy Karam on NPR
>Keith Dinger was also part of the report, I thought they both did a
great job. Phil Egidi
I changed the subject line, because I agree 110%, they both did a
fantastic job. Folks, we are in a breakthrough period. NPR got two good
experts from our society on who:
1) Gave reasonable, common sense answers about a pertinent radiation
protection topic to a large body of listeners,
2) Did so in easy to understand language,
3) Did so on behalf of the Society, and
4) Got NPR to correctly identify and describe the Society.
Andy's long history of good work with media interaction paid off, as he
got across some important messages about radiation dose and risk, using
excellent down-to-earth language and personal examples. This short
transcript is a PhD level lesson in media relations, I encourage
everyone to listen to it (several times) and take to heart the lessons
that these two great HPs just taught us. Combined with the success over
the last couple of years of the HPS' Ask the Expert site (of which both
Andy and Keith are regular contributors), we are achieving a long sought
after goal of being heard and understood by the public and the media.
Bravo!
Another note - as we are often quick to send angry letters to news
outlets who get it wrong, I think it behooves us to send nice letters to
NPR, who got this one right!
Mike
Michael G. Stabin, PhD, CHP
Assistant Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences
Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences
Vanderbilt University
1161 21st Avenue South
Nashville, TN 37232-2675
Phone (615) 343-0068
Fax (615) 322-3764
Pager (615) 835-5153
e-mail michael.g.stabin@vanderbilt.edu
internet www.doseinfo-radar.com
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