The Economist discusses the media’s enthusiasm to publish initial scientific findings and their lack of follow-up reporting:
If the hypotheses reported in the original studies had stood the test of time, then such short journalistic attention spans would not be a problem. But as Dr Gonon has shown, 80% of the papers in the study turned out to be either wrong or questionable. Failure to follow that up risks leaving even attentive readers with a false impression of progress in the field.