Posted on 03/26/2014 3:27:49 PM PDT by Kaslin
Obamacare is a fiasco. Why don't the media acknowledge that? And it's fair to ask: Why don't they ridicule it? After all, in the Bush years, the press reran President George W. Bush in front of the "Mission Accomplished" banner time and again, did they not? Perhaps Joe Biden at the signing ceremony saying into an open mic that this was a "big (blanking) deal" would suffice.
How do we know Obamacare is failing? Ironically, because those very same "reporters" are doing the opposite of the Bush years. They're burying the story. They aren't in denial. They know the truth. They're just choosing to ignore it. They are pretending there are no broken promises about keeping your insurance plan, or keeping your doctor, or lowering your premium by $2,500 a year. They are pretending, like Ellen DeGeneres told the president, that "everyone" in America loves Obamacare.
Just how much coverage have they given to this, the most important domestic issue since Ronald Reagan's economic recovery plan? A Media Research Center analysis of the three network evening news broadcasts in 2014 found only 12 full stories on three networks in almost three months. "NBC Nightly News" has broadcast one story on Obamacare in this calendar year. That was a piece on Jan. 1 marking the start of what fill-in anchor Lester Holt called "a new era in health care in this country." Including that piece, "Nightly News" has only offered five minutes and five seconds of evening-news coverage of the health care law in 2014.
ABC's "World News" wasn't much better, offering only six minutes and 58 seconds on Obamacare in 2014. And the tone? On Jan. 2, ABC's Jonathan Karl relayed the story of Maggie Fernandez, saying how "for her, the dawn of Obamacare means better health coverage, money saved, and a chance to make her first doctor's appointment in nearly a year."
The "CBS Evening News" was the least embarrassing program, yet it managed only 19 minutes and 17 seconds of coverage over almost three months.
Compare that to its coverage of that jet.
CBS was also the only network to locate a victim of Obamacare. On Feb. 8 -- a lower-rated Saturday night newscast -- CBS correspondent Carter Evans told viewers about a 4-year-old girl sent to Seattle Children's Hospital by her family doctor, only to be told later that the hospital has been deemed "out of network" by the Obamacare policy.
One of the doctors said, "We're seeing denials of care, disruptions in care. We're seeing a great deal of confusion and, at times, anger and frustration on the part of these families who bought insurance thinking that their children were going to be covered, and they've, in fact, found that it's a false promise."
CBS also aired a Jan. 2 report by Sharyl Attkisson who revealed a study that found previously uninsured individuals actually used emergency rooms more once they enrolled in Medicaid and showed "no measurable improvement in physical health, such as blood pressure or cholesterol." But CBS's lack of interest in these stories led her to resign.
Unlike their appetite for Iraq polling, none of the networks dared to report the ongoing opposition of the American people to Obamacare in 2014, even when they were the ones doing the polling. In early March, NBC's pollsters found 49 percent of adults opposed Obamacare versus only 35 percent who supported it. But "NBC Nightly News" would not even touch its own poll.
Last September, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius calmly told Dr. Nancy Snyderman on "NBC Nightly News," "I think success looks like at least 7 million people having signed up by the end of March 2014." Now, Team Obama claims they have 5 million -- if you flagrantly ignore whether the sign-ups have actually paid for their policy, which is the only way to "get covered." And when you consider the 5 million who have lost their policy, you stand at zero.
The failure of Obamacare is a big (blanking) deal. As is the media cover-up.
Aren’t the people in the media being hurt by this too? Why are they so eager to defend it?
They believe in O-BA-MA. People don’t like the facts upsetting their belief systems. They are in denial.
**Obamacare is a fiasco. Why don’t the media acknowledge that? And it’s fair to ask: Why don’t they ridicule it? After all, in the Bush years, the press reran President George W. Bush in front of the “Mission Accomplished” banner time and again, did they not?**
Media are stilted left.
Maybe because they got their lips plastered on 0bama’s behind, so that they are unable to think?
And they accused President Bush of making that statement, which he never did. They were to stupid to get the meaning of the banner
Something is going on in Oregon because I had a man tell me today that his plan was one that had been cancelled and had deliberately not signed up for another one....decided he’d just pay since he doesn’t require medical care on a regular basis. Yesterday, he got a packet in the mail telling him that he had been signed up for one of that insurance company’s bronze ACA plans.
He told me that this was done without his knowledge or permission. And wanted me to look at his papers....all 30 of them and there was no insurance card in the “packet.”
What the heck do I tell people who are getting put on insurance plans against their will and without their knowledge?
I told them we would call and inquire, but no one at the insurance company seems to know why this happened.
Kaslin but fumes can do weird things to a liberal mind
“Sometimes the Lord works in mysterious ways”
I was never in the Navy but even I knew what the banner meant to the carrier and those serving on it as soon as I saw it. Anybody else miss the old days when morons weren’t proud of it and didn’t loudly broadcast to all that they are?
Because there is this database built by the Clinton’s or their operatives in the 90s.
It profiles everybody they come into contact with. With those profiles they manipulate or cajole or otherwise bribe Journalists of today with career mobility, upward mobility. It’s the political version of ‘Make a Wish’ but for people who can further the Progressive agenda.
Then, much like the University Campus’s and teachers and administrators, once you establish a managerial presence, you hire like minded people.
There is nothing in what I said that I can prove. I just strongly suspect based on things that went on in the 90’s.
Read My Sig .....
The media is no longer simply biased. They are outright advocates for the radical left. By commission and omission.
“Anybody else miss the old days when morons weren’t proud of it and didn’t loudly broadcast to all that they are?”
Thank you for saying so. I was just saying to a friend today: we were raised to shut up unless we knew what we were talking about. And if you mouthed off and were wrong, there were consequences for that. No more.
Joe Biden said it was, “A Big F’ing Deal.” He was 2/3’s right.
Hmmm. Obamacare “slamming” going on?
If there were any real editors left in the news business this would NOT be happening...
They've failed the American people. They think they're failing because of the Internet... but that's not true. The Internet is succeeding because the MSM has disgraced themselves... because they quit telling the truth. An example from the above article:
Unlike their appetite for Iraq polling, none of the networks dared to report the ongoing opposition of the American people to Obamacare in 2014, even when they were the ones doing the polling. In early March, NBC's pollsters found 49 percent of adults opposed Obamacare versus only 35 percent who supported it. But "NBC Nightly News" would not even touch its own poll.
Excellent point (sort off)
Very true
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