An LA Times column today cited FAIR’s petition demanding that the TV networks include single-payer in their coverage of the healthcare reform debate, acknowledging that there is a “gaping hole in much of the media coverage—caused by the failure to investigate practices around the rest of the world, particularly European-style, single-payer programs.”
The Times‘ James Rainey concluded his column, “TV Needs To Deepen Coverage of Healthcare Reform,” with a report on the delivery of FAIR’s petition at ABC—the network that disinvited Obama’s longtime physician Dr. David Scheiner, a single-payer advocate, from its June 24 “Prescription for America” program:
The liberal media watchdog group Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting and a group of progressive activists delivered a petition Tuesday to ABC News in New York (which recently excluded one of the activists from a forum on healthcare) to demand broader reporting, including an assessment of government-managed health systems.
I suspect some in the big media have tiptoed lightly on that turf for the same reason as the politicians. Better to appear ill-informed about the world of healthcare than to appear open to anything, you know, French.
I have some news for Rainey …
Single payer hasn’t been disappeared due to any aversion to things French – but by an aversion to anything that would harm the profit margins of the “health” industry corps that line the campaign coffers of “public servants” on both sides of the aisle, and that collude with the corpress to make sure the system remains their gold-plated ATM.
Of course, he knows that – and now that he’s “made mention” of single payer, he can go back to ignoring it, can’t he?
It’s still the same old story – literally a case of do or die.
Vive la diff
(Let’s try that again … appears this system’s not keen on accents, is it?)
I have some news for Rainey …
Single payer hasn’t been disappeared due to any aversion to things French – but by an aversion to anything that would harm the profit margins of the “health” industry corps that line the campaign coffers of “public servants” on both sides of the aisle, and that collude with the corpress to make sure the system remains their gold-plated ATM.
Of course, he knows that – and now that he’s “made mention” of single payer, he can go back to ignoring it, can’t he?
It’s still the same old story – literally a case of do or die.
Vive la difference!