Re: OT: on NPR

On Jun 13, 11:19 pm, Miguel de Maria <elegantspanishgui...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Do you mean the story titled "Health Care Reform From the Insurer's
Perspective" Why would it supprise you that they talked to an
insurance company ?

Given my thesis that they are too influenced by the corporate sector,
it is not surprising at all that they would feature them, favorably,
in this or any other segment.

which one of those insurance companies sell health insurance?

"I’d like to know how much money insurance companies which sell health
insurance contributed to NPR in 2009 (so far) and in 2008. I’ve
requested the information from NPR management."

On your periodic browses of Counterpunch, you can check up on what he
finds.  Regardless, it's a good guess the insurance industry, as well
as the corporate sector in general, will oppose this since the system
as currently configured offers them many benefits at the taxpayer's
expense.

Note: "In the week leading up to Obama’s March 5 healthcare summit,
hundreds of stories in major newspapers and on NBC News, ABC News, CBS
News, Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, NPR and PBS’s NewsHour mentioned
healthcare reform, according to a recent FAIR study (3/6/09). But the
idea of single-payer was mentioned only 18 times—and only five of
those included the views of single-payer advocates."

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3793

The thesis that NPR only presents the insurance industy position is
obviously false, and you don't need to dig too deep to see that. Now,
who has an agenda? How honest is it?
.

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