Medicine and the media--misrepresentation of interview.

Sir, In your new feature 'Medicine and the Media' (8th July, p. 121) you mention my contribution to what you considered a muddled feature on the hazards of jogging in Tonight (BBC 1, 28 June). Perhaps the inside story may be of help to some of your readers as an example of what happens to the naive clinician when faced with the media. I am tending now very strongly to the view that the producer approaches the subject with a pre-set idea and then selects little bits of what the experts say that fit in with his own view. Certainly the treatment of the topic and the selective editing involved in my interview, in which only part of an answer to a question was incorporated without the question itself being posed, lead me to this view of television journalism.