Journalists need to be wary about using very general and questionable information from the UN, NGOs and other international agencies just to support the gist of their story. Where are the reliable and representative data for such assertions? Take the first paragraph of the Ethiopian article from the UN (OCHA)which uses such generalities: "interventions appear to be working in some areas";"total number of (malnourished) children is still rising";"significant risk of relapse"; "moderate malnutriti is also increasing". Ethiopia has been developing more reliable food and nutrition surveillance, monitoring and evalautions systems, and the UN should use the documented mortality and malnutrition data from each of the highly affected regions instead of picking up unrepresentative numbers here and there.