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Noz ruminates on how all the lies about healthcare got so much traction:

the conservatives who i have been arguing with are not lying. they don’t think they’re misleading anyone, they’re just repeating what they think is true, even though it comes across as nuts to anyone who has tried to follow the legislation. their seeming detachment from the real debate is more of a byproduct of the alternate universe that the conservative media has built for itself. if you get you information from fox news, rightwing blogs and talk radio, you’re probably unfamiliar with any of the basics that are necessary to participate in any substantive discussion of the real policy issues.

I think he has a point. The teabaggers screaming “read the bill” clearly have not.

I gave up on broadcast news a long time ago. Not just cable. All of it. Even the folks who try to do a good job (that is, who try to be accurate) don’t have enough time to be thorough. And it seems that the folks who have the most time (such as three-hour radio shows) have no interest in accuracy.

Full disclosure: There are some more or less sane NPR shows that I listen to via podcast, because they devote and hour to a story and really do dig into it.

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