The Inquirer gets it mostly wrong on health care, again
As a political science teacher for twenty five years, I argued that the mainstream media was not systematically biased against progressives. I was wrong. But I’m still not sure what the problem is. I don’t know if it is the economic interests of publishers—which I still kind of doubt is important; or the fact that political reporters have a vested interest in making politicians and citizens seem even more divided than they really are; or whether the habitual skepticism of reporters makes them focus more on the likelihood of failure than the possibility of success. And maybe all of these factors are exacerbated because political reporters really only have the time to understand the gross politics of issues rather than the details of politics or policy. But for one or another of these reasons, most of the news reports about health care reform in the mainstream media, and certainly in the… Continue reading