[quote=girlcat36]I am dumbfounded by the reaction on air by my local FOX news team to this story! [/quote]It's not just the Fox Newsies who are doing this. This morning I was watching MSNBC's "Morning Joe," where in the first part of the first hour there was a segment involving a LOT of wink-wink, nudge-nudge, guffaw-guffaw about the NY Post story among Joe Scarborough (admittedly a conservative) and the more liberal members of the MJ team -- including, I regret to say, Mika Brzezinski, whom I always considered a voice of reason in that group. I found contact information for the show and shot off a quick email castigating them for their sophomoric efforts at "humor" -- noting that behaving similarly if the subject was a woman talking about how she got cervical cancer would set off a Twitter storm. I also noted that there was a preventative vaccine for the carcinogenic forms of HPV and that perhaps their air time might better be used to urge vaccination against this potentially deadly virus (as Texas Governor Rick Perry did; he may have faults, but that wasn't one of them) instead of making fun of Michael Douglas for his sexual behavior.

I'd like to think it made a difference. Normally the first 20 minutes or so of the 8 a.m. hour consists of a rerun of the first 20 minutes of the 6 a.m. hour. Not today!

I just read today that Jim Kelly, hall of fame QB of the Buffalo Bills was diagnosed with SCC of the upper jaw. Perhaps this can be another positive that can piggy back along with Michael Douglas.

"T"

Good Morning America interviewed their doctor and he discussed this maturely and suggested the vaccine. I think Robin Roberts would have punched someone if they had been tacky about it.

Way to go Brian!

Brain, as always....great job!!!

Its about time HPV, OC and OCF got some attention. Looking forward to seeing how this plays out.

I look forward to reading Brian's press release. I guess there will be a link here?
I have read so much misinformation written in the last 24 hours and also look forward to see how it plays out.
Gabriele

Yes. Please provide a link. I am looking forward to Brian's press release as well.

This is probably not going to be available until tomorrow afternoon. I did 34 interviews today in the media, on Iive radio in local markets like St. Louis, and had more conversation with journalists than I could count, giving them background information on HPV and oral cancer. I literally started talking at 5 in the morning and did not get off the phone till 6 tonight. Natalie at the office got the callers in a queue, and I started working each one. What a day�. my voice is gone. The media people were all pretty good, some were just looking for a quick factoid, some wanted strong background that took lots of time to get them to understand things, and some wanted just referrals to good doctors to get on their TV shows. LONG day, but a good day for the cause.

As we all saw today, my grandfathers adage that the "masses are asses" still is true. The comments from the general public in most of this are probably why Douglas is backpedaling on his statement about HIS cancer being HPV+, who would have guessed it would have blown up Google and the social media world when he gave one simple interview. Allen who is his gatekeeper put out the release stating that he didn't mean HIS cancer, but this is obviously not what he said when he did the original interview.

I think his entire team is overwhelmed by the public shitstorm this opened up. When I talk about my sex life on TV only my wife cringes and gives me crap, 90 % of the whole world is giving him shit. This is all really too bad. We have a celebrity advocate that was willing to stick his neck out, and what happens. Idiots happen.

Brian,

Thank you and great job.

Brian, you sure had one heck of a day! Great work!!! Thank you for attempting to educate the media people. Hope some of them will get it right.

Thanks for everything you do to make this world a better place.