Posts Tagged ‘Healthcare’

‘The ratio of substance to horse-race reporting remains low…’

Here’s Peter Levine on the way that the healthcare debate has been reported by the press in the US: “…the news media spent a year feeding American citizens a steady diet of stories about Congressional procedure, the possible impact of health-care reform on elections, and quotes that falsely described the bill or denounced its critics. [...]

Climate change and the lobbyists

I meant to pick this up a few days ago – I’ve been too busy to blog as diligently as I’d like to. In the Times, Greenpeace’s Joss Garman says: “Imagine if, instead of 60 years ago, the Labour Party was trying to create a National Health Service today. The right-wing campaign to scupper the formation of [...]

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