Health education specialists can harness the power of the news media to advance healthy public policy and their effectiveness can be increased by all of the following except:

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Using intimidation to assure their story is covered is not an effective or ethical strategy for health education specialists to increase their effectiveness in advancing healthy public policy through the news media. The other options (developing an overall strategy, learning about how the news media operate, developing a message that frames the issue from a public health perspective, and understanding how to attract journalist attention) are all constructive approaches to working with the media.

Health Education Specialists Can Harness the Power of the News