NYT noted Giuliani's criticism of British health care, but not campaign's use of flawed statistics

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http://mediamatters.org/items/200711070003?f=h_latest

A November 7 New York Times article on Judith Giuliani's appearance before "an audience of medical professionals and cancer survivors" reported that Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani "has repeatedly criticized Britain's health care system and said that the Democratic candidates were calling for a similar system of 'socialized medicine.' " While the Times article, by reporter Julie Bosman, noted that "{i}n fact, most of the Democrats say they advocate plans to extend coverage to the uninsured, not plans for government-provided health care," it did not point out that the figures Giuliani has cited to criticize Britain's health-care system -- that his "chance of surviving ... in the United States, 82 percent" but that his "chance of surviving prostate cancer in England, only 44 percent under socialized medicine" -- have been disputed. As Media Matters for America has documented (here and here), several media reports have called into question Giuliani's claims, noting that Giuliani was not citing mortality rates, but rather survival rates, which experts including Howard Parnes, chief of the Prostate and Urologic Cancer Research Group at the National Cancer Institute, called, in Parnes' word, "meaningless." In fact, Bosman herself had reported on the problems with Giuliani's statistics in an October 31 Times article: