How come the Media never report on the "good" that would come from Health Care Reform?

[FrenchieCat]

but only report on the GOP talking points of what would be bad about it,
and how hard it would be to pass?

How come the Corporate media never report on the positive aspect of health prices going down,
never remind their audience that we are already paying for the Health Care of Americans in this country who are not insured, but yet are always telling us how expensive health care reform will be, and always asking where is the money going to come from?

How come the corporate media (i.e., CNN and such) never report on the falsehood
stated by opponents of health care reform on single payer health care programs in foreign countries?

If they are meant to inform, how come they never do?
Why do they carry the water of the opposition to Health Care reform?

[Lorax7844]

1. Your answer of course would be look at their advertisers

count the pharma ads and the insurance ads that fill their commercial breaks.

Also kicked and rec'd.

[Thrill]

2. Because their purpose isn't to promote it. But to defeat it.

.

[FrenchieCat]

3. Why aren't they called on it?

Why are we mute?

I see Tweeter quotes running on CNN all of the time,
and yet, none of them say shit in reference to the media's role.

When are we gonna ask them what in the fuck to they think they are doing?

[Thrill]

4. Obama pretty much has no Democrats out there

fighting with him on selling his plans. So I don't expect any help from anyone on this either.

[Joe the Liberal]

5. Because the media is not in the business of reporting the positive.....

It's all negative all the time. Reporting on the positive doesn't help them in anyway, it goes against their own self interest.

[JBoy]

6. Because those in the media who decide what gets covered already have insurance.

[FrenchieCat]

7. Selfish assholes!

[flpoljunkie]

8. Why? They are too busy whining about tax surcharges on the wealthy and 'class warfare.'

They are, with some exceptions, just sorry.

[BlooInBloo]

9. I've been watching teevee most of the day. About 80% time against, 20% time for.

[FrenchieCat]

11. More like 90% to 10% from the channels I'm watching.

Really can't understand why these folks hate us so much.

[Cha]

14. That sounds fucking

depressing..no wonder President Obama has to call night time pressers.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

10. because the media wants to privatize healthcare

[FrenchieCat]

12. We need to let them know that is not the business that they are in.

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[Cha]

13. It looks like the corporatemedia has a

stake in the Obama admin not succeeding which they are trying very hard to make happen.

Think they're going to get the fasists back in 2012 so they can get their tax cuts back and keep the people sick and poor.

[mzmolly]

15. Indeed! And, why aren't they interviewing people who've not had

access to health care? Where is the HUMAN face of our national disgrace?

[FrenchieCat]

18. I see more Media pundits interviewing each other.....

and the not so lost irony of course, is that they all have a great health insurance benefit package!

Kinda of makes one want to write some emails with the addresses I posted....well, it does me, anyways! :mad:

[mzmolly]

21. It makes one wax nostalgic for actual

reporters. :(

[trayfoot]

26. Thanks Frenchie for the great sources!

I am going to use it to continue to fight for universal healthcare!

[Jennicut]

16. Because corporations and the wealthy control the mainstream media

On every issue that would help this country, they do not portray anything in a fair fashion. Long gone are the days of Cronkite. Corporate tools is what we are left with. Some of them are okay some of the time, most are horrid and a very select few do their jobs. However, they will get more and more desperate over time as less and less people pay attention to them. More of us bypass them and get info from the net, share info with each other. Newspapers are dying and so will they, eventually.

[zulchzulu]

17. Watch the Pharma ads and their paid lobby political ads during the commercial breaks

It is glaringly obvious if you are recording these shows and watch the ads in the commercial breaks just why the Pharma and Insurance lobby is going full-court press to scare people and lie since it's their monumental profits that are at stake.

Greed kills.

[Yavin4]

19. Four Words: Big Pharma Ad Revenue

Why do you think that MSNBC put a doctor show on at noon. You think they really care about your health?

I watched a little bit of it, and the host teased the next segment on the Swine Flu and how it may affect your kids after the break. Then a stream of big pharma ads plays while nervous moms anxiously wait for the Swin Flue segment.

[FrenchieCat]

24. Sounds like abuse.....

and it is; Self subjected.

[depakid]

20. Because the once public airwaves in America now belong to the highest bidder

and neither the Obama administration nor the Democrats seem inclined to re-regulate- so it's only going to get worse.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

22. In some countries the media would not be allowed to comment on the President's jeans!

announcers/anchors would not be allowed have a biased opinion on issues. More than often the government of the day would determine what is said.

[depakid]

23. True- but not in western industrialized nations

The US is exceptional in this regard

[Vinca]

25. They rarely report on the plight of the uninsured and underinsured.

After you see and hear some of the stories, you wouldn't care if it cost a million trillion dollars to get health care to everyone.

[HopeOverFear]

27. Because healthcare reform would mess with their ad revenue

all those viagra commercials? Yeah. MSM is owned by the pharmaceutical industry.