Journalistic licence

As a general practitioner I am often accused of not being in a position to pass comment on specialist medical care. This is nonsense. I consult on psychiatry, rheumatology, diabetes, and the rest every day. I don’t pass comment on table tennis, wrestling, butterfly collecting, street dance, opera, fashion, Morris dancing, or Peter Andre, because I have no interest in or direct knowledge of these. You need to know something, of something, to say something.⇑

The media pass comment: they have a duty to. But what if …