This is a pain in the ass as a scientist. What I mean is, the government or the university or whoever supplied the funding typically wants to conduct interviews and release information on their terms. Often times, they'll send "media coaches" to scientists or researchers to help them say only things that don't affect the organization negatively. This is because, most scientists are *gasp* pretty good and telling their results being good, bad or in between. It's a huge media game.
Also, this isn't done to discount research. As I'm trying to emphasize, it's done to give the organization the upper hand over the media.
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