Single Payer advocate Jerry Policoff [http://www.opednews.com/articles/Poll-Excludes-Single-Payer-by-Jerry-Policoff-090312-353.html has noted] "a recent poll commissioned by HCAN (Healthcare for America Now) suggests strong grassroots support for the Obama-supported Healthcare reform plan. It is indeed an interesting survey, though not a particularly candid or objective one, and if one reads between the lines, the survey strongly suggests that the one option respondents were not asked to consider, the Single-Payer option, would have resoundingly defeated the others if it had been included in the survey questionnaire."
I was struck by how little analysis the broadcast news outlets went into when reporting on the election of Funes. All the stories seemed to concentrate on the facts of the election, highlighting his party's Marxist past, or speculating on his relationship to the US. This video shows several examples of the lack of depth in coverage http://www.newsy.com/videos/el_salvador_s_leftist_leader/
Is it a sign of the state of journalism that so few broadcast outlets actually went to El Salvador to cover the election, or a sign of how little significance news outlets feel El Salvador has to their audience, or both?
[[Our Brand Is Crisis (Film)|Our Brand Is Crisis]] is one of the most important political documentaries I've seen, and yet it's like a best-kept secret, so few have watched it. Check it out.
How cool would it be to have a government that represents US. Like the guy before me says, if the lobbyists are against it, I am for it. As far as the socialism boogeyman talk, I don't buy it. Can you give any examples of how it's never worked and why it never will?
Dittohead is a term used with pride by cultish followers of [[Rush Limbaugh]] who 'ditto' his opinions rather than actually digging into issues and thinking for themselves. The new president is brilliant and charismatic, but I think it's becoming painfully clear that he is also wont to throw hundreds of billions of dollars at propping up failed institutions and structures, rather than broadening his vision and backing fundamental change. Your Joe McCarthy-isk characterization of 'single payer' shows minimally that you haven't taken a look at it. You owe it to yourself to visit this site:
[http://www.pnhp.org/facts/single_payer_resources.php PNHP]
I was struck by how little analysis the broadcast news outlets went into when reporting on the election of Funes. All the stories seemed to concentrate on the facts of the election, highlighting his party's Marxist past, or speculating on his relationship to the US. This video shows several examples of the lack of depth in coverage http://www.newsy.com/videos/el_salvador_s_leftist_leader/
Is it a sign of the state of journalism that so few broadcast outlets actually went to El Salvador to cover the election, or a sign of how little significance news outlets feel El Salvador has to their audience, or both?
[[Our Brand Is Crisis (Film)|Our Brand Is Crisis]] is one of the most important political documentaries I've seen, and yet it's like a best-kept secret, so few have watched it. Check it out.
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