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Related: About this forumHow the media’s blowing the Obamacare rollout
By taking insurers at their word, those reporting on Obamacare tradeoffs and failures are getting totally fleecedBY BRIAN BEUTLER
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If you consume a balanced media diet, then by now youre familiar with the following pattern:
1) A story about an individual insurance policy holder discouraged by a cancellation notice and rate shock lands and blows up, all likely with the help of a dutiful GOP public relations professional.
2) A day or a week later, the story is debunked or a more conscientious reporter finds that the full set of facts paints a much more nuanced picture. But it gets much less attention than the first story.
I get it. Outraged constituents create much better copy than satisfied or curious constituents.
But its really striking how long its taking reporters to realize that these stories are incomplete and probably inaccurate unless and until they and their subjects have a handle on all of the relevant information. Read the kicker of this Jonathan Cohn story. It really should be the lede. Dianne Barrette, a Florida woman who became a poster child for the rate shock meme, has learned a bit more about her situation, and now says that the cancellation of her junk insurance plan may may be a blessing in disguise.
full article
http://www.salon.com/2013/11/05/how_the_medias_blowing_the_obamacare_rollout/
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How the media’s blowing the Obamacare rollout (Original Post)
DonViejo
Nov 2013
OP
need a pic of Scott Pelley there too - he is out of control with ACA bashing.
NRaleighLiberal
Nov 2013
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The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,587 posts)1. The media blows. Period.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,006 posts)2. need a pic of Scott Pelley there too - he is out of control with ACA bashing.
a kennedy
(29,615 posts)4. I know, and I used to watch CBS Evening News......well not so now.
I've really learned to drop CBS entirely off my favorite list of channels, and 60 minutes is just not watchable anymore.
IronLionZion
(45,380 posts)5. Evening news is mostly negative
check out the morning news for more positive stories.
bigdarryl
(13,190 posts)3. There not blowing anything there trying to help sabotage the law
All three of those DICKS!!! in that photo have two things in common they all have employee provided health care.And there well paid on their jobs.
change_dont_complain
(4 posts)6. So frustrating...
Here's a link to an post about this as well...
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/11/05/insurance-companies-obamacare-scam/
When will the media start focusing on the insurance companies???