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Nation.com: Howard Kurtz—an Unreliable Source? (6/24/07) by Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Nation's editor wants to know, "Why is it that the mainstream media treats single-payer healthcare (Medicare for all) as a fringe idea—when, in fact, it has broad support?"In a Sunday-morning segment—devoted to dissecting media treatment of Michael Moore and his new film Sicko, Howard Kurtz asserted that Moore is "pushing government-run healthcare which no presidential candidate supports." Last I checked, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), and a candidate for the presidency, not only supports a single-payer, Medicare for all, not-for-profit healthcare system, but he co-sponsored HR 676, The U.S. National Health Insurance Act, along with Congressman John Conyers and more than 74 other House members.... If Reliable Sources wants to remain reliable, shouldn't it issue a correction?... If CNN can devote an hour this Wednesday evening to Larry King's interview with Paris Hilton, shouldn't it be able to give over a few minutes to coverage of single-payer healthcare?
Coupled with CBS's own recent misinformation, this provides real insight into why establishment pundits want to get folks like Kucinich out of the race: They want to be able to state that the political spectrum extends thus far and no farther, and that anyone who thinks differently is floating on an asteroid somewhere. Kucinich complicates that declaration—but no matter, he can be easily ignored.
See FAIR's Action Alert: CBS's 'Sicko' Spin: Americans Don't Want Single-Payer Health—Except They Do (6/25/07)
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