The news, produced by your hospital

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From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, a report on medical institutions paying for air time in local newscasts and editorial space in newspapers and their web sites — including the Post-Dispatch. Said one news director, regarding a cancer center's funding of news segments featuring its doctors: "I fail to see the conflict. Who's against curing cancer?"