If it looks like a press release and reads like a press release, why is it being sold as a government report?

Doc in a Box from Alex Tabarrok links to an official state government document, from the Utah Department of Commerce. The document is titled “Key Statistics on the Doctronic Pilot Program” but reads more like a bulleted press release, full of percentages without a denominator, begging for a flow chart. Press releases are like that because you typically won’t add images — although this one randomly selected from today does indeed include it along with the full abstract submitted to the ASCO annual meeting, and good for them — but more importantly because you want to pick the best possible picture-perfect view of your shiny spotless data elephant without also acknowledging that it has a rear end, a bunch of flies buzzing around, smells a bit rank. Does your elephant not have an ass, Utah? Or did you just copy/paste what Doctronic — a startup whose wonky web page doesn’t even work — sent you? ⊕ Doctronic. We have hit a technical snag. Go to Homepage to hit it again. So how many patients…