Here's a CNN e-mail alert I just received a couple of hours ago:
So how did the Associated Press's Jeannine Aversa report the above raw news? As you would expect an Obama apparatchik to do it (reproduced in full as it existed at 3:15 p.m.; bold after title is mine):
Fed sees hopeful signs but downgrades '09 forecast
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve expects the economy to improve in coming months, even as policymakers have downgraded their outlook for all of 2009.
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and his colleagues believe business sales and factory production will begin to gradually recover later this year as President Barack Obama's stimulus package and the Fed's aggressive efforts to end the recession take hold. In new Fed documents, they also ...
Nortin Hader, M.D. is a "professor of medicine and microbiology/immunology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and an attending rheumatologist at University of North Carolina Hospitals."
He also thinks that a number of procedures commonly thought of as beneficial have no or very minimal benefit.
The fact that ABC is carrying Hader's exhortations may be a clue that the network is in the tank for anything that would appear to promote government intervention in the medical system. That appears to be where Hader is ultimately going.
Judge for yourself when you see the list of procedures Hader believes are either not beneficial, or are very minimally so:
We all know about medical malpractice. That is when a physician does something necessary but does it inexcusably poorly. I call that Type I ...
Nortin Hader, M.D. is a "professor of medicine and microbiology/immunology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and an attending rheumatologist at University of North Carolina Hospitals."
He also thinks that a number of procedures commonly thought of as beneficial have no or very minimal benefit.
The fact that ABC is carrying Hader's exhortations may be a clue that the network is in the tank for anything that would appear to promote government intervention in the medical system. That appears to be where Hader is ultimately going.
Judge for yourself when you see the list of procedures Hader believes are either not beneficial, or are very minimally so:
We all know about medical malpractice. That is when a physician does something necessary but does it inexcusably poorly. I call that Type I ...
Nortin Hader, M.D. is a "professor of medicine and microbiology/immunology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and an attending rheumatologist at University of North Carolina Hospitals."
He also thinks that a number of procedures commonly thought of as beneficial have no or very minimal benefit.
The fact that ABC is carrying Hader's exhortations may be a clue that the network is in the tank for anything that would appear to promote government intervention in the medical system. That appears to be where Hader is ultimately going.
Judge for yourself when you see the list of procedures Hader believes are either not beneficial, or are very minimally so:
We all know about medical malpractice. That is when a physician does something necessary but does it inexcusably poorly. I call that Type I ...
Those who believe that the Politico is a hangout for former establishment media journalists who want to recreate a combination of the New York Times and Washington Post on the web -- complete with the insufferable biases of those two publications -- can look to the disparate treatment of two challenges to party congressional leaders as affirmative evidence.
In a search on "Cindy Sheehan" at the Politico, I found that in covering the congressional candidacy of former media darling Cindy Sheehan in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's district, the online news site carried two tiny items. Only one of them was originally produced there.
The first, carried at its Crypt blog in July 2007, noted in a that the anti-war activist was planning to run ...
Those who believe that the Politico is a hangout for former establishment media journalists who want to recreate a combination of the New York Times and Washington Post on the web -- complete with the insufferable biases of those two publications -- can look to the disparate treatment of two challenges to party congressional leaders as affirmative evidence.
In a search on "Cindy Sheehan" at the Politico, I found that in covering the congressional candidacy of former media darling Cindy Sheehan in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's district, the online news site carried two tiny items. Only one of them was originally produced there.
The first, carried at its Crypt blog in July 2007, noted in a that the anti-war activist was planning to run ...
Imagine if in December George W. Bush and his administration had:
Decided not to issue the initial bailout billions to General Motors but not Chrysler, thereby forcing Chrysler into bankruptcy.
Had his advisers get on the phone with elected in officials in towns and states where Chrysler has plants and told them that the bankruptcy was about to happen.
Said that the Chrysler bankruptcy "will not disrupt the lives of the people who work at Chrysler or the communities that depend" on them.
Now imagine if, 24-36 hours later, Bush's advisers disclosed that many Chrysler plants would close.
Does anyone reading this think that such an obvious betrayal would have gone unreported by the major TV networks or newspapers of record?
Well, on Wednesday and Thursday, April 30, Barack Obama ...
Imagine if in December George W. Bush and his administration had:
Decided not to issue the initial bailout billions to General Motors but not Chrysler, thereby forcing Chrysler into bankruptcy.
Had his advisers get on the phone with elected in officials in towns and states where Chrysler has plants and told them that the bankruptcy was about to happen.
Said that the Chrysler bankruptcy "will not disrupt the lives of the people who work at Chrysler or the communities that depend" on them.
Now imagine if, 24-36 hours later, Bush's advisers disclosed that many Chrysler plants would close.
Does anyone reading this think that such an obvious betrayal would have gone unreported by the major TV networks or newspapers of record?
Well, on Wednesday and Thursday, April 30, Barack Obama ...
Imagine if in December George W. Bush and his administration had:
Decided not to issue the initial bailout billions to General Motors but not Chrysler, thereby forcing Chrysler into bankruptcy.
Had his advisers get on the phone with elected in officials in towns and states where Chrysler has plants and told them that the bankruptcy was about to happen.
Said that the Chrysler bankruptcy "will not disrupt the lives of the people who work at Chrysler or the communities that depend" on them.
Now imagine if, 24-36 hours later, Bush's advisers disclosed that many Chrysler plants would close.
Does anyone reading this think that such an obvious betrayal would have gone unreported by the major TV networks or newspapers of record?
Well, on Wednesday and Thursday, April 30, Barack Obama ...
Imagine if in December George W. Bush and his administration had:
Decided not to issue the initial bailout billions to General Motors but not Chrysler, thereby forcing Chrysler into bankruptcy.
Had his advisers get on the phone with elected in officials in towns and states where Chrysler has plants and told them that the bankruptcy was about to happen.
Said that the Chrysler bankruptcy "will not disrupt the lives of the people who work at Chrysler or the communities that depend" on them.
Now imagine if, 24-36 hours later, Bush's advisers disclosed that many Chrysler plants would close.
Does anyone reading this think that such an obvious betrayal would have gone unreported by the major TV networks or newspapers of record?
Well, on Wednesday and Thursday, April 30, Barack Obama ...
