Do you think some media priorities are a tad askew, or is it just me?
Accountability Journalism*
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: 11Number of pages in document being covered:
• ObamaCare bills: 4,064
• Palin book: 432Number of pages per AP reporter:
• ObamaCare bill: 2,032
• Palin book: 39.3On 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.
*Part of this article in the The Wall Street Journal online.
Thus ends today’s public service announcement.
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
~ Aldous Huxley
Writing by Ear 
robbie said,
Friday, November 20, 2009 at 2:34 pm
And who out there still doesn’t think there is a liberal bias in media?