If you don't think the Media is slanting the news against a single payer or even

[WCGreen]

a public option, then you are living on La La land.

And it's not because they are pushing a conservative agenda. That's the easy way to frame th picture. Because when you complain, they can state smugly that you should see the stack of letters we get from the other side...

No the reason the media is against upheavals in the Health Insurance Industry is that they will lose all those advertising dollars that the huge insurance companies spend on feel good targeted commercials.

Watch the news and take down who is advertising on the the channel.

Then you will see the amount of advertising money they have at stake in many of the contentious issues of our times.

[asjr]

1. Money has a loud voice.

[GivePeaceAchance]

2. The ironic thing is if the health insurance comapnies didn't have a strangel hold of 1/5 of ...

grosss domestic product, more generous industries would probably advertize with them as more people had money to spend that wasn't swallowed up in insurance premiums. The support of the health insurance industry at the consequence of all other industires is just not very forward thinking on their part. They want to expand industry so they can get more advertising and that can only happen though health insurance savings via public option.

[Chef Eric]

8. Exactly!

The world of advertising is ruled by shortsightedness.

[Cha]

15. The corporatemediaWhores don't want President Obama to

win at anything. That would lead to a 2nd term.

[high density]

3. It's like we're back in 2002 and they're selling us a war

The AP has run the same story over and over and over again.

[patrice]

6. Yes, exactly!

[WCGreen]

9. Yep, they are selling us a scam...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. Exactly right...

K&R

[patrice]

5. Insurance + Pharma

[depakid]

10. PhARMA actually has a lot to gain....

[patrice]

11. ? From government being able to negotiate prices with them?

Yes, from more people being covered, hence a bigger market, but that will be offset by gov't bargaining them down, right?

[depakid]

12. From more people being able to afford health care AND medication

that they push on Americans via TV ads all day and night.

[patrice]

13. I want to see reform that moves the focus off of pills and onto Preventative therapies.

[WCGreen]

14. That is far to rational for the average American to get....

[Triana]

7. they slant, twist, and misreport everything - all they care about is their corprat

bottom line.

No surprise there. They couldn't tell the full, accurate, unadulterated, untwisted, unsensationalized TRUTH about anyone or anything if their greedy lives depended on it.