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Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Health care reform: Legislation makes numerous changes

Joanna takes a stab at laying out what's in the bill, doing what a reporter should be doing. Then the editors come in and turn it into a political debate piece by running a sidebar with comments from McCain and Kirkpatrick.

They won't let it go, it all has to be about politics. This keeps voters confused and stirred up emotionally so they can't think with any clarity about what's actually happening. The photos are more than twice the size of the sidebar, top of page one: so what's the message?

1 comment:

  1. I think the message is obvious. I'm surprised there wasn't something about the 2nd Amendment included!

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