First, it is a retrospective case-control study and is therefore susceptible to reportingbias, meaning that people with ALS may report their coffee consumption differently from controls.
Oh, yes, cite the first amendment: But it is hard to see how you could persuade people that public funding for journalism is a good idea without more robust protection from invasions of privacy, abuses from dilatory or inaccurate reporting, and political bias.
The best journalists often ask provocative questions that may couch a real bias or comprise a reporting tactic, aiming to get an honest assessment out of a CEO.
Foreign journalists had been called to attend a meeting in February entitled "Honest and accurate reporting" by the information minister in order to be berated on what the government here perceives to be a negative bias in coverage of Nigerian affairs.