Found this on http://www.townhall.com/ a right wing, neocon web site.
Friday, November 20, 2009
AP Studies Palin's New Book, Health Care Bill
Posted by: Meredith Jessup at 3:16 PM
James Taranto has a bit today in the Wall Street Journal where he looks at the Associated Press' "fact-check" on Sarah Palin's new book and the attention they are devoting to the Democrats' health care overhaul:
An Associated Press dispatch, written by Erica Werner and Richard Alonso-Zaldivar, compares the House and Senate ObamaCare bills. We'd like to compare this dispatch to the AP's dispatch earlier this week "fact checking" Sarah Palin's new book.
Here goes:
Number of AP reporters assigned to story:
• ObamaCare bills: 2
• Palin book: 11
Number of pages in document being covered:
• ObamaCare bills: 4,064
• Palin book: 432
Number of pages per AP reporter:
• ObamaCare bill: 2,032
• Palin book: 39.3
On a per-page basis, that is, the AP devoted 52 times as much manpower to the memoir of a former Republican officeholder as to a piece of legislation that will cost trillions of dollars and an untold number of lives. That's what they call accountability journalism.
Since this info is provided by a rightwingneoconwebsite I don't believe that the healthcare bill would cost "untold number of lives". Plus I am not able to verify the numbers of reporters allegedly assigned to the task of reading Ms. Palin's book. However, even if you cut in half the number of AP reporters covering the book, I still find the ratio of reporters of bill to book to be an excellent example of the prostitution of main stream media.
I'm also not saying that Ms. Palin would make a good president for the United States. Frankly, I would prefer a president who looks less cute, and doesn't drop so many Gs from one's vocabulary.
I am saying that I resent the fact that it is so difficult to gain an accurate perspective of certain presidential candidates via today's main stream media. I naively consider such object reporting to be part of their job.
I am saying that our Founding Fathers, while working hard to assure the freedom of the press, did not expect our "watchdogs of democracy" to devolve into such media whores.
Friday, November 20, 2009
AP Studies Palin's New Book, Health Care Bill
Posted by: Meredith Jessup at 3:16 PM
James Taranto has a bit today in the Wall Street Journal where he looks at the Associated Press' "fact-check" on Sarah Palin's new book and the attention they are devoting to the Democrats' health care overhaul:
An Associated Press dispatch, written by Erica Werner and Richard Alonso-Zaldivar, compares the House and Senate ObamaCare bills. We'd like to compare this dispatch to the AP's dispatch earlier this week "fact checking" Sarah Palin's new book.
Here goes:
Number of AP reporters assigned to story:
• ObamaCare bills: 2
• Palin book: 11
Number of pages in document being covered:
• ObamaCare bills: 4,064
• Palin book: 432
Number of pages per AP reporter:
• ObamaCare bill: 2,032
• Palin book: 39.3
On a per-page basis, that is, the AP devoted 52 times as much manpower to the memoir of a former Republican officeholder as to a piece of legislation that will cost trillions of dollars and an untold number of lives. That's what they call accountability journalism.
Since this info is provided by a rightwingneoconwebsite I don't believe that the healthcare bill would cost "untold number of lives". Plus I am not able to verify the numbers of reporters allegedly assigned to the task of reading Ms. Palin's book. However, even if you cut in half the number of AP reporters covering the book, I still find the ratio of reporters of bill to book to be an excellent example of the prostitution of main stream media.
I'm also not saying that Ms. Palin would make a good president for the United States. Frankly, I would prefer a president who looks less cute, and doesn't drop so many Gs from one's vocabulary.
I am saying that I resent the fact that it is so difficult to gain an accurate perspective of certain presidential candidates via today's main stream media. I naively consider such object reporting to be part of their job.
I am saying that our Founding Fathers, while working hard to assure the freedom of the press, did not expect our "watchdogs of democracy" to devolve into such media whores.
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