Healthcare media coverage “gone rogue”
Bill Shuster says:
Today’s Best of the Web in the WSJ Online has a breakdown of the coverage over the healthcare debate. This is worth a look -
Accountability Journalism
An Associated Press dispatch, written by Erica Werner and Richard Alonso-Zaldivar, compares the House and Senate ObamaCare bills. We’d like to compare this dispatch to the AP’s dispatch earlier this week “fact checking” Sarah Palin’s new book. Here goes:
Number of AP reporters assigned to story:
���• ObamaCare bills: 2
���• Palin book: 11
Number of pages in document being covered:
���• ObamaCare bills: 4,064
���• Palin book: 432
Number of pages per AP reporter:
���• ObamaCare bill: 2,032
���• Palin book: 39.3
On a per-page basis, that is, the AP devoted 52 times as much manpower to the memoir of a former Republican officeholder as to a piece of legislation that will cost trillions of dollars and an untold number of lives. That’s what they call accountability journalism.
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Cliff Plumlee November 20, 2009 1:23 pm