All the News that Fits 0
Wendell Potter wonders whether the establishment press attended the same Senate hearing as he. A nugget:
The focus of all those stories was a brief exchange toward the end of the hearing between Committee Chair Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, and GOP Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin about whether the color of President Obama’s skin might explain why some people are opposed to the law.
In politics news, as in entertainment reporting, it’s all about celeb gossip. In politics news, though, real events, data, and statistics matter, but the gossip is what reporters give us.