Kate Murphy

Single-Payer & Interlocking Directorates

Journalists reporting on the healthcare reform debate are often work for media corporations whose boards include representatives of the insurance industry.

July 1, 2009

Kate Murphy

[Note: This piece is a sidebar to Misjudging Sotomayor Coverage] Following President Barack Obama’s announcement of Judge Sonia Sotomayor as his nominee for the Supreme Court, Extra! compared the New York Times National Desk’s coverage of the two weeks following Sotomayor’s nomination (5/27/09-6/10/09) to the first two weeks of coverage of Ronald Reagan Supreme Court […]

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Sotomayor vs. Bork

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