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Friday, June 19, 2009

Oh, well, as long as journalists have health insurance, nothing else matters
Posted by Jill | 10:07 PM
Why the mainstream media perhaps deserves to die:

Time's Mark Halperin frequently repeats right-wing myths about the "liberal media." But today he undermined his already-weak case by arguing that one reason "to bet AGAINST major health care reform passing this year" is that "Most journalists still have health insurance."



The clear implication is that because most journalists have health insurance, they don't see the need for reform -- and that colors their reporting.

Sounds pretty reasonable.

Now, when do you think Halperin will consider other, similarly reasonable things?  Like the fact that all working journalists have jobs, which -- by Halperin's logic -- colors their coverage of policies meant to help the unemployed.  Or the fact that few national political reporters earn the minimum wage -- and, indeed, those like Mark Halperin make considerably more than the average worker, which likely colors their coverage of minimum wage proposals and tax policy.  And so on.



Wow. It's rare that you see this blatant a display of utterly clueless narcissism. It would be impressive if assholes like this didn't have so much impact on what people think.

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Blogger Melina said...
What will be really rich will be when the Times goes out of business as expected. I hope that Halperin is working hard on his blog, because he may find that finding another job that offers insurance is much harder than it used to be...maybe he can get picked up by one of the established right wing blogs that surely will offer a nice health package...er...never mind...
6/19/09, 11:02 PM  
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