Why don’t you refer to our current healthcare system as a “corporate-run system?”
At Democratic presidential debates and elsewhere, network TV journalists have aggressively challenged the notion of “abolishing private health insurance” — without discussing what health insurance companies actually contribute to healthcare beyond bureaucracy and profiteering. At last June’s debate, NBC’s Lester Holt asked candidates to raise their hands if they would “abolish private insurance in favor of a government-run plan.” Over and over, when mainstream journalists refer to Medicare for All — wherein the government would be the provider of health insurance, while doctors and hospitals remain private — they mislabel it “government-run healthcare” or a “government-run system.” Yet they never call our current system “corporate-run healthcare.”
2. Why don’t you provide actual data on the public’s attitudes toward health insurance firms?
A 2016 Harris poll found deep disdain for health insurance companies, with only 16 percent believing that these firms put patients over profits. In a 2018 Forbes article on “The Top 5 Industries Most Hated by Customers,” the health […]
I believe real journalism died long ago Stephan. “Only the facts,‘mam” does not exist any more. It’s all about thought shaping. Talking points and teleprompter’s have taken over, and they all parrot each other. Every provider of “news” selects their content and spin it to please their perceived audiences. That in turn generates their ratings, which in turn creates their income stream from cable companies and how much they can charge for advertising. I trust none of it! I long to “cut the cable” and cancel my cable bill. I’m getting close to doing just that … Tom in NY
This is why I donate and listen to NPR and CPR(CO Public Radio), and watch PBS. Listener/viewer sponsored. They also receive corporate sponsorship, but they disclose it in stories where it could be significant. I’ll listen for the terminology mentioned, and call them on it if it’s prevalent. I recommend others who are worried about media bias do the same.
That said, I find the complaints about the questions asked at the Dem’s debate a little off the mark – to me the moderators were playing devil’s advocate to give the candidates the opportunity to set the record straight on misconceptions. Any candidate should relish that opportunity.
“I have an increasing problem with American mainstream media.”…Wow. me too.
I spend a lot of time each week researching movements for change across the world and am sometimes stunned at the reporting/misreportinh slants by the USA corporate media….and I include all of it.
Possibly the most egregious this past week was the AP reports feed on the demonstrations in Iraq to oust US forces from occupation of Iraq after the Iraqi parliament voted to ask the Us to leave.
Initial AP reports (website and social media) were that hundreds had demonstrated. this was changed a few hous later on website but not social media that thousands had demonstrated. international media was already reporting individula protests exceeding 1oo’s of thousands and multiple protests in multiple cities. Some international outlets/agencies were already reporting millions in the streets.
Eventually US media morphed into over a 100,000 but changed the reason of the demonstrations to being against the Iraqi government.
BTW I personally find the Guardian quite reliable but am aware of a seeming bias regards it’s ex-colonial empire states.
I learned somewhere that a large corporation owns almost all of he large and small newspapers in the USA and tells them what to print. That is not journalism, it is just a large way the Oligarchy works to eliminate controversy made by “real” journalists who dig for the news which is backed up by facts.