name reporters from [NBC and ABC] have chosen a blackout or ridicule approach<\/strong>. NBC News\u2019 crack team of political reporters led by Mark Murray and Chuck Todd have covered their eyes and ears. ABC political director Rick Klein can\u2019t be bothered either. However, John Harwood took a more direct approach:<\/p>\nI listened to\/get what Gruber said, & get why it makes people mad about ACA madder. but that is only significance @ron_fournier @JohnEkdahl<\/p>\n
\u2014 John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) November 18, 2014<\/p>\n
Six million healthcare plans lost on an admitted and oft-repeated lie, and this isn\u2019t news to them. Enough is enough.<\/p>\n
They have chosen, like most scandals involving the Obama Administration, to report on the Republican reaction and \u201coverreach\u201d instead of on the story of itself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
It’s significant – and not in a good way – that the only Obama scandal the media has come close to taking seriously is the allegations that the Administration spied on, lied to and has been opaque with the media.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Because lying about your doctor and Benghazi is one thing; being forthcoming to ones’ media benefactors is serious business<\/em>:<\/p>\nGruber, to whom the administration deferred on dozens of occasions to speak for them, admitted the only way ACA could be passed was to lie to stupid American voters. American voters have figured out the lie, as demonstrated by the results of the 2014 midterm elections. But the only group left defending the Obamacare catastrophe is the media by now ignoring Gruber.<\/p>\n
This isn\u2019t bias. This is malfeasance and corruption.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
It is long past time for the GOP to stop bothering with the mainstream media.\u00a0 No more GOP primary debates on ABC; no more agreeing to Democrat ticket-punchers like Candy Crowley in presidential debates, and if possible no more presidential debates on the Big Three or CNN.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Starve the beast now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
…from the mainstream media.\u00a0 Big Media have almost completely blacked out coverage of the Johnathan Gruber scandal.\u00a0 Of course, that’s the part that you see on the evening newscasts (if you still watch them; it’s been close to ten years since I’ve watched any).\u00a0 Behind the scenes?\u00a0 The national media has the same approach the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49351,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49350\/revisions\/49351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}