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They are here on DU pedaling lies, but mostly, the professional liars operate from the highest centers of media distribution.
This Blogger Smoked Out Traditional Media Manufactured Obamacare Lies
January 11, 2014 by Egberto Willies http://egbertowillies.com/2014/01/11/blogger-traditional-media-obamacare/
It isnt only the smaller media outlets that are generating the barrage of misinformation. CBS News whose 60 Minutes has been compromised with Benghazi and NSA misleading stories has been a major culprit. After-all CBSs Jan Crawford reported a story about a woman losing the insurance she loved and could afford. It turned out had CBS made one telephone call or just checked healthcare.gov they could have informed the woman that she could get much better and reliable insurance for a comparable price.
It is a new day in media. Corporate owned major media that sometimes seem to purposely allow themselves to be a conduit to lies and misinformation are being challenged. Bloggers and other independent media that previously had little reach are now fact checking. They are using the power of the internet to inform with fact based information and not hit pieces that is now endemic in the traditional media.
Blogger Maggie Mahar immediately realizes newspaper story is completely wrong.
Maggie Mahar, a prolific blogger at HealthBeat Blog and author of Money-Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs So wrote the blog post Anatomy of an Obamacare horror story detailing yet another misinforming story. It turns out the story in the Fort Worth Star Telegram was not only biased, it was simply not true. Maher writes. ............
Enrique
(27,461 posts)the subject of their story turned out to be a member of Concerned Women for America, and her story turned out to be false (insurance was available for much less than she claimed). And the blogger's request for a correction has so far been ignored.
catbyte
(34,447 posts)Shrike47
(6,913 posts)The editor had an agenda and refused to acknowledge it, correct misinformation or publish addional, correct information.
Cha
(297,655 posts)Maggie Mahar
Jazzgirl
(3,744 posts)They used to not be like this. Sad because it used to do halfway decent coverage.