The least reported items (reported ≤15% of the time) were Section E (practitioner background) and F19 (explanations of control to patients).
This is interesting because journalistic aims can differ in different media: newspapers often cover current scientific topics with political links or scientific events such as prize giving on a daily basis, whereas TV science magazines and science journals often report background information and explanations about scientific topics.
"Breaking Digital Firewalls: Analyzing Internet Censorship and Circumvention in the Arab World," is a mouthful, but the 405-page dissertation published this year is a treasure trove of background, statistics and explanations on why governments of "Arab Spring" countries did and/or continue to stifle Internet users, and what the suppressed do to bypass the restrictions.
Despite background literature and explanations by researchers making clear to potential users that they would need to enter their health data themselves, all 21 people interviewed were disappointed and some were angry that they found an "empty" record.
In common with this previous review the items most commonly missing were details of practitioner background, setting/context and explanations to patients, as well as amount of pressure used (equivalent to depth of insertion of needle), style of acupressure, de qi or the extent treatment was varied, perhaps less relevant to acupressure than acupuncture.
Rather, he plunges you into the story without much background or explanation and lets you get up to narrative speed as events unfold and characters enter.
In all cases a respectful attitude and explanation about the background and legitimacy of the measure is of main importance for a positive patient's perception.
What's particularly notable here is that Andrejweski, who may I remind you owns her own location-based photo posting site, regrettably posted the photo to Twitpic instead of Foodspotting and offered no background or explanation as to whether she was part of Jobs' entourage or just an innocent photo bomb bystander (we've contacted her for more info and will update this post if she responds).
The Economist's explainers usually stick to a four-paragraph formula: set-up, background, explanation and implications.
Increasingly, newspapers run packages, where news and background features - explanation, implications, case studies - are placed together in the newspaper.
