Beltway media seem to view the world as R or D and miss the third group, the people. ABC News Political Director Amy Walters attempts to preserve Obama's 'health' plan by using the people, 'the electorate' as a potential threat.
1/1/2011, Big Journalism: "ABC News continues to behave like they are working hand-in-hand with the Obama Administrations’ health care take-over message machine. The latest effort came from ABC News Political Director Amy Walter as she offered a harsh warning to Republicans: Don’t mess with ObamaCare (video below).
In 2009, ABC News reporter Linda Douglass was named the Director of Communications for the White House Office of Health Reform. Her infamous warning against mis-information from the right about ObamaCare with her plea for Americans to report their fellow citizens who spread the conservative message on the health care legislation to “Flag@WhiteHouse.gov” got most of the headlines during her tenure.
But, Ms. Douglass’ most lasting propaganda effort while working in the White House may have been the exclusive
- “Health Care Forum” broadcast live from the White House exclusively on her former network hosted by ABC News anchors Charlie Gibson and Diane Sawyer.
Now, ABC News Political Director Amy Walter continues her network’s critical role in the ObamaCare debate.
The dramatic editing complete with the “DJ Jazzy Jeff-esque” scratch-back of Senator Mitch McConnell’s statement adds to
- the horror film motif that ABC News is trying to project on to the debate."...
- How the media missed the Scott Brown election:
"Pew: "And when it became clear something was up,
- it was polling—
- Then came a crucial moment. A poll by Rasmussen Reports published on January 5 showed that Brown trailed Coakley by single digits, only 9 points, a much closer race than previously thought. The Herald quoted Rasmussen President Scott Rasmussen saying,
- The media, even locally, were utterly surprised by the support for Scott Brown." (Both the Globe and Herald had endorsed Coakley)
- In the two weeks after the Rasmussen poll, coverage picked up frantically. The New York Times and Associated Press produced almost twice as many stories in final the two weeks from January 6-19 as they did in the entire three months from September 1-December 8. Locally, nearly one-quarter of all the Boston Globe’s election coverage occurred in the final two weeks. Herald coverage accelerated further, with nearly 40% of all its campaign stories published in that period....
- One other framing finding during the primary suggests this was not a campaign marked
- by much journalistic
- vetting of candidates’ claims,
- accounted for 1% of the stories examined." ...
Big Journalism story via Drudge Report
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