Diagnosis: Is WaPo Health Section Bipolar?

Last week, I took the Washington Post health section to task for running a top-of-the-fold story about cosmetic surgery that featured photographs no different from a cheesy ad. This week, the section features an excellent top-of-the-fold piece about health charities like the American Diabetics Assn. that are in bed with the drug industry. I'd like to think they were feeling guilty about last week's story, or heard so much criticism that they had to respond. But today's article was written by a freelancer funded by the Fund for Investigative Journalism, so it must have been in the works for quite a while. Maybe the section is bipolar.

But I wouldn't take drugs for the condition if I were one of the editors. I'd simply elimate the flubs. (They can always call me up if they want talk therapy at no cost.) As for this week's excellent story by freelancer Tinker Ready, you can find it here. Let's hope it's not a manic episode but the establishment of a new normalcy.