Why won't the media do their jobs on health care? WHY!??

[PretzelWarrior]

it's not so hard. but these morons want to focus on some yelling (and in some cases clearly mentally challenged) people who feel jumping up and down and interrupting the representatives when they try to talk is normal and acceptable behavior.

They want a fight and the dude on a CNN report I just watched online was comparing it to a boxing match as though he's calling a fight rather than discussing health care.

The media should be showing the trends about health care in the past 10 or 15 years and the likelihood things will only get worse if nothing is done.

WHY also are so many of Murrican so Goddamn stupid?

[BlooInBloo]

1. Because they're the establishment elite.

[valerief]

2. Sponsors. nt

[Hutzpa]

3. Corporate Donors n/t

[Crunchy Frog]

4. There job is to pimp corporate interests.

They're doing that job just fine.

[FrenchieCat]

5. Because they only thing they want to read is what put before them

while on camera.

They will not read the bills and understand them,
therefore they can only comment on the process and not the substance
of the debate....which is something they can twist whichever way the
feel like it.

[PretzelWarrior]

8. well, it's killing me to see something so good for America devolve to this level

it gives me very little hope about the political will in this country to ever set ourselves on the right track again.

The really sad thing? Dipshits out there railing against government health care who don't want you to touch their Medicare. People are selfish and stupid more often than not. So if no one takes the lead other than Obama in having a rational debate and educating ourselves, then the demagogues and smear merchants win by default.

But at the same time......maybe I'm feeling so frustrated because SO MANY people are out there doing this. Perhaps we need new objective polls on the subject about where the typical American really is on the idea of creating a framework for better health insurance.

I just cannot believe how many are getting it up the ass on health insurance premiums and copays and deductibles but who say they are satisfied with their own insurance plans.

[Hansel]

6. Because research is more expensive than just reading RW talking points and ...

chasing train wrecks. It's all about the bottom line, not generating useful information.

[jesus_of_suburbia]

7. The media is really showing their true colors on this.

Which is why we need to do all we can to support the administration right now.


Let's get the best we can, and then we can complain afterwards if it isn't what we wanted.

I don't have a problem with pressuring for more right now, but not to the point that we join in with the right-wingers who don't want ANY change.

[PretzelWarrior]

9. that's the sad irony. there are those on the far left who are just as damaging to this

as the right wing loonies. The purists are amazing to watch. P.S. There were many liberals/progressives in 1930's who thought FDR's social security and other reforms didn't go far enough.

[jesus_of_suburbia]

12. I understand why they are upset, but the Pres needs as much support as possible right now!

I'd rather have single payer too (even though I know Pres Obama never campaigned on that).


But right now, I just think it's more helpful to give total support, because the right-wing crazies are attacking Pres Obama at a frenzied pace.


Let's get the best we can right now, and then push for more later. I think that's what Pres Obama is trying to do too.

[badgolfer]

10. Media

If you watch any tv programs, the main sponsors on almost all of them are drug or insurance companies. They aren't going to bite the hand that feeds them, ever.

How many ads has Progressive Insurance been running over the past few months; every night every station?

[nc4bo]

11. Corporations playing defense for other corporations?

My mind just had a flash back of the last big pharma commercial I saw - think it was for Boniva/Spiriva/Symbicort/Advair/ or something (or ALL of them), then it's those new diabetic testing meters where I won't have to hurt my fingers anymore and how I can get a new scooter and how the company will handle all the messy paperwork for me. Then there's the ads for Flomax/Vesicare/Enablex - it goes on and on.

Naturally there are people who really could benefit from all of these meds, etc. but wouldn't that be a decision best left to my physician and not the teevee?

Sometimes I imagine my teevee would like to have a spam filter same as my email accounts do.

I firmly believe that these big corps are all linked together and the thing that links them is the BIG $$$$$ they all can make on the backs of all of us.

Big chums the lot of them.

[polichick]

13. Because they work for parent companies that have a big stake in the status quo. nt

[PretzelWarrior]

14. it's too bad so many country and city fools don't want to see this.

for some reason, they are willing dupes in all this as they break down and cry at town halls. very odd.

[polichick]

21. It's shocking to see so many fools fall for corporate/Republican hacks and idiots like Palin. nt

[nc4bo]

16. Can't resist........

GE Healthcare:

http://www.gehealthcare.com/usen/index.html

GE Healthcare is dedicated to developing revolutionary technologies that help diagnose disease earlier as well as providing information to help you make the right health choices for you and your family.

:rofl: I don't hear GE saying a damn thing regarding double and triple tests done using their technology or how they agree that all doctor's should have a copy a test/scan rather than having 3 different doctor's performing the same test on the same patient and how that could help lower the cost of healthcare.

It's sick, truly.

[Phx_Dem]

15. The cable MSM has no interest in reporting news or informing their

viewers. They want a spectacle; if it's not sensational, they're not interested.

It's sad because cable news shows have all the time in the world to explain complex issues and break them down so average people can understand them, but it's not sexy or sensational so they don't do it. They have completely abdicated their responsibility as "news journalists."

[PretzelWarrior]

19. good point about time fill. the nightly news you could say is pressed for time

but when MSNBC or CNN have hours each day....why not focus on it like grownups instead of trying to be a guy with a camera attempting to catch monkeys throwing feces.

[CakeGrrl]

17. Because the MSM has theirs, and like their corporate owners, don't care

about the rest of America except to get them to watch their show for ratings so they can keep their cush jobs.

ps - I unrec'd by accident, sorry! Meant to click "reply" and had an itchy mouse finger!

If you've never seen "Bulworth", it's worth watching. The political/media b.s. gets called out big time.

[PretzelWarrior]

20. no worries. yeah. Warren Beatty did good with that one.

[damntexdem]

18. But they are doing a job on health care.

Just like their corporate masters want them to do.

[rock]

22. Why won't the media do their jobs ...

Stop right there!

[goclark]

23. Because a huge percent of their sponsors are Viagra and Friends

That's why

[harun]

24. It is a myth that they have ever tried to do their jobs. They are not the Fourth Estate.

They serve consolidated American corporate power. Not the American people.

[Cha]

25. Same reason they didn't do their jobs leading up

to The War On Iraq..because they're mediawhores with only one thing on their collective greedy little mind..bow down to their corporate master and when master says "manipulate and manufacture the news" ..they do it.