From Drew Altman, PhD, president of the Kaiser Family Foundation. Read the entire column, but here's an excerpt:
With so much of the media now configured for instant news and the relentless pursuit of controversy, stoked by spin and manufactured news by partisans on both sides, the many great journalists in the news business working hard to inform the public face a big challenge in explaining the complex issues in health reform.
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