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2009-08-24 Home Front: Politix

Journalists Impotent in Health Care Debate

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Posted by Bobby 2009-08-24 06:37|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 It's articles like this that make you realise how WILDLY out of touch "journalists" are.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2009-08-24 07:24|| 2009-08-24 07:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Anything which doesn't agree with their idea of how things could turn out is 'misinformation' and 'untruth'. The idea that people could draw different conclusions is alien to them.

Posted by gromky 2009-08-24 07:32|| 2009-08-24 07:32|| Front Page Top

#3 Would journalist imp*tence be covered under the National Health Care program?

Posted by Glenmore 2009-08-24 08:20|| 2009-08-24 08:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Perhaps journalists are no more trusted than politicians these days...

No kidding. At least politicians can go to work for the corporations/special interests groups they've represented after they are retired/fired.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-08-24 08:46|| 2009-08-24 08:46|| Front Page Top

#5
Alt, alt Title: Journalists Frustrated as Public Refuses to Swallow B.S.

Posted by Parabellum 2009-08-24 09:44|| http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/]">[http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/] 2009-08-24 09:44|| Front Page Top

#6 "Eat your sandwich, you ungrateful proles!"

Posted by mojo 2009-08-24 10:35|| 2009-08-24 10:35|| Front Page Top

#7 And I see another application for the strikout function - add back in some clarification from editing out whole paragraphs of wasted electrons and photons.

Posted by Bobby 2009-08-24 18:09|| 2009-08-24 18:09|| Front Page Top

#8 "But even when they report the facts, they have had trouble influencing public opinion."

GOOD.

Too bad the piece didn't mention that today's so-called journalists rarely report the facts (and then usually by accident), and "influencing public opinion" is NOT what they're supposed to do in the first place.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-08-24 19:18|| 2009-08-24 19:18|| Front Page Top

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