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He Said, She Said Horsecrap

by BooMan
Sat Mar 13th, 2010 at 10:13:52 AM EST

How do you feel about the quality of this reporting on the front-page of the New York Times?

Some issues that could swing blocs of votes, like insurance coverage for abortions, remain unresolved. House Democratic leaders said they had suspended their efforts to reach a compromise with party members who oppose abortion and the use of federal money to subsidize insurance that includes coverage of the procedure. That could cost them the votes of some House Democrats who supported the health care bill in the fall after it was amended to impose tight restrictions on abortion coverage.

I guess it is technically true that at least one Democrat feels that the Senate health care bill provides money for abortions, but that doesn't mean that it actually does. It doesn't. This is also in today's Times:

According to the National Catholic Reporter, Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, a Washington-based advocacy group, sent a letter to members of Congress on Friday urging support for the Senate-passed health care bill and expressing its view that the bill contains sufficient provisions to prevent the use of federal money to pay for insurance coverage of abortions.

The story caught the attention of the White House, which sought to publicize it on Friday evening.

But, right there on the front-page of the supposedly liberal New York Times is the suggestion that abortions will be covered. I can't read it any other way.



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The paragraph before the one you cite reads:

But even as the yearlong battle hurtled toward a conclusion, approval of the bill was hardly certain, so lawmakers were preparing for a week of arm-twisting and high drama. Although they have been debating the issue for a year, some House Democrats said Friday that they could not say how they would vote because they had not seen the final text of the legislation or an official estimate of its cost.

Is this "final text" thing just dotting i's and crossing t's or is it more substantive?

by Ed J on Sat Mar 13th, 2010 at 10:58:15 AM EST
They're waiting for the CBO score on the sidecar.
by Rachel Q on Sat Mar 13th, 2010 at 11:13:28 AM EST
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And Gingrich is given a page:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/13/us/politics/13gingrich.html?hpw

The title's bad enough, but of course everything is good news for Newt Gingrich, even when only 300 people come to see him.

by seabe on Sat Mar 13th, 2010 at 11:49:59 AM EST
This is nothing new, Boo.  The NYT has been trash for a long time.

Watching newspapers die has become quite enjoyable given the garbage that passes for reporting in this country nowadays.

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to you country.

by Drew J Jones (blahblahblah@blahblahblah.com) on Sat Mar 13th, 2010 at 12:24:37 PM EST
I don't know what's happened to the Paper of Record, which I still read religiously, but used to revere.

Either I am much more educated and sophisticated than I used to be, or the reporting has simply become more superficial. Frankly, I think it is the latter.

by gideon on Sat Mar 13th, 2010 at 04:54:45 PM EST


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