Is American media burying the Prozac story?

A huge new study has found that Prozac is hardly more effective than a placebo. But some media outlets are burying the story.

AFP is carrying it.


Reuters is carrying it.

The Associated Press has nothing.

Is this because the study was based in Britain and AFP and Reuters are European-based agencies? Either AP has missed a trick or is burying this.

I'm starting to think it's the latter.

This is front-page news in Britain.

The Independent

The Guardian

The Times

The Daily Telegraph is apparently not running it.

In Paris, Le Monde has the story.

The New York Times runs the Reuters story, but buried in the News section with a very unprovacative headline: Study Doubts Effectiveness Of Antidepressant Drugs

Compare that to the Murdoch-owned Times (of London): 'Depression drugs don’t work, finds data review' and, on the contents page, "Anti-depression drugs 'no better than placebo'" They also have an analysis piece explaining 'Why it is often better to prescribe conversation than antidepressant pills'.

This hugely important story is getting buried in the States.