Did USA Today break the embargo on Pew Prescription Project report on drug safety?
An Embargo Watch tipster emailed this morning suggesting that USA Today had broken the embargo on a Pew Prescription Project report on whether U.S. voters trust the drug supply. USA Today‘s story went up sometime last night, as per usual for a story in the print edition, but the contents of the report itself were supposedly embargoed for sometime today, to be discussed during an 11:30 a.m. conference call with reporters. I asked Pew, and they responded: Yes, USA Today broke the embargo. But that’s not consistent with what USA Today‘s Rita Rubin emailed me in response to my questions: Pew came to us and said we could run the story Tuesday, the day they were having a press conference to announce the findings and Bennet’s bill. There was never any mention of an embargo, either in interviews or in print. We posted the story when we usually post stories. Linda Paris then said we should have posted it at 12:01 a.m. (first mention of that), but it was already up. We told her it would be compl
