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Women In Media & News: Breast Cancer’s Chemical Culprits (5/24/07) by Miranda Spencer
The environmental blogger is "horrified" by recent research showing "more than 200 chemicals—many found in urban air and everyday consumer products—cause breast cancer in lab animals." And she is "encouraged" that the L.A. Times ran a related article "by award-winning environmental reporter Marla Cone" on its front page. But Spencer ultimately is "frustrated"by the lack of “legs” the story seems to have had in the mainstream press. As of May 21, a Lexis-Nexis search showed Cone’s piece had been picked up or summarized by only the Baltimore Sun, the Charleston (WV) Daily Mail, Grand Rapids (MI) Press, UPI and the Washington Times; there was also an editorial in the San Francisco Chronicle.... What might account for the lack of buzz around these stories? Are the news media afraid to alienate advertisers who produce all those chemical-based products? Or is the wider implication too challenging to contemplate? Namely, that the chemical soup we swim in is harming not just Earth’s atmosphere but our own bodies?
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