Center's "ER" campaign earns extensive press coverage in print and broadcast outlets
November 30, 2003 -- Following the Center's distribution of a press release on November 10, numerous print and broadcast outlets have covered our campaign to persuade the NBC show "ER" to portray nursing more fairly.
The campaign was profiled in an extensive story in the weekly Health section of The Washington Post and CNN's American Morning with Soledad O'Brien and Bill Hemmer both covered the story on November 18. Independent pieces were also run in the British Medical Journal on Nov. 29, the Sydney Morning Herald on Nov. 20, the Chicago Tribune on Nov. 30, the Globe and Mail on Nov. 22 and the Pasadena Star News on Nov. 17. Spain's El Mundo and Argentina's Clarín ran pieces on Nov. 24 and 25 respectively. The Roanoke Times ran a short editorial on the campaign on Nov. 19.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette printed a huge sidebar of excerpts of the Center's media reviews along with a reprint of Ms. Boodman's Washington Post article. Other reprints and summaries of the Washington Post article were run in the the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune on Nov. 30, the Charlotte Observer on Nov. 24, the Arizona Republic on Nov. 20, the Omaha World Herald on Nov. 28, The Record from northern New Jersey on Nov. 24 and the Kaiser Family Foundation Health Policy Report on Nov. 18.
In addition, Center executive director Sandy Summers appeared live to discuss the campaign on November 20 on two D.C. radio stations, WHIT (99.5 FM), a powerful pop music station, and WMAL (630 AM), an ABC talk radio affiliate. She also discussed the campaign on two Los Angeles radio stations, on November 18 on KFWB (980 AM), a Viacom (CBS) station, and on November 19 on talk radio station KFI (640 AM). We understand that the campaign received coverage on D.C.'s news station WTOP (107.7 FM) on November 19.
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