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1. Campaign Desk

   A Laurel To NPR

   September 10, 2008 11:31 AM

   NPR has done some fine health reporting recently, the kind that we hope will spur others to do similar stories. In a year where much of the campaign coverage of health care has focused on the vacuous statements the candidates... Continue reading

2. Campaign Desk

   Health Care on the Mississippi, Part V

   September 8, 2008 12:45 PM

   This is the fifth in a series examining how the candidates’ health care proposals will affect ordinary people who live in the river town of Helena-West Helena, Arkansas, and how the press could cover that angle. The entire series is... Continue reading

3. Campaign Desk

   Bad News, Bad Story

   September 8, 2008 09:46 AM

   I know news stories are getting shorter. But an Associated Press health care story last week did a disservice to readers with its incomplete and convoluted brevity. The gist of the story was that health insurance copayments and... Continue reading

4. Campaign Desk

   Dissing Elizabeth Edwards

   September 3, 2008 11:33 AM

   Charlotteobserver.com ran a piece Sunday written by a reporter at the Raleigh News & Observer that criticized Elizabeth Edwards. Her sin: dealing in seclusion with the sex scandal that has engulfed her husband, former Democratic presidential candidate John... Continue reading

5. Campaign Desk

   McCain Surrogates Take To The Press

   September 2, 2008 09:33 AM

   The Dallas Morning News should have known better than to run a news story last week that was essentially an op-ed for John Goodman, who heads the conservative National Center for Policy Analysis, a Dallas-based outfit... Continue reading

6. Campaign Desk

   Postscript on Harry and Louise

   August 28, 2008 01:10 PM

   On Monday, I mentioned the latest television commercial featuring Harry and Louise—the infamous TV couple who periodically take to the airwaves and opine on the state of American health insurance. I noted that Harry and Louise also appeared eight years... Continue reading

7. Campaign Desk

   The Obamas and the Chicago Hospital Controversy

   August 26, 2008 02:34 PM

   As excitement mounted for the Democratic convention at the end of last week, The Washington Post published one of those loaded connect the dot stories tracing the Obama campaign’s ties to the University of Chicago Medical Center, one... Continue reading

8. Campaign Desk

   Harry and Louise Are Back Again

   August 25, 2008 09:56 AM

   Fred Mogul, a health reporter at WNYC, called to discuss the latest Harry and Louise comeback. The infamous duo appeared in health insurance commercials in the early 1990s, raising doubts about the Clinton health reform plan. Although press lore now... Continue reading

9. Campaign Desk

   Health Care on the Mississippi, Part IV

   August 25, 2008 09:36 AM

   This is the fourth in a series examining how the candidates’ health care proposals will affect ordinary people who live in the river town of Helena-West Helena, Arkansas, and how the press could cover that angle. The entire series is... Continue reading

10. Campaign Desk

    Health Care on the Mississippi, Part III

    August 21, 2008 01:30 PM

    This is the third in a series examining how the candidates’ health care proposals will affect ordinary people who live in Helena, Arkansas, and how the press could cover that angle. The entire series is archived here. Annette... Continue reading

11. Campaign Desk

    Health Care on the Mississippi, Part II

    August 15, 2008 01:54 PM

    This is the second in a series examining how the candidates’ health care proposals will affect ordinary people and how the press could cover that angle. The entire series is archived here. James Bell III and James Bell... Continue reading

12. Campaign Desk

    Health Care on the Mississippi

    August 15, 2008 10:07 AM

    This is the first in a series examining how the candidates’ health care proposals will affect ordinary people and how the press could cover that angle. The entire series is archived here. So far, mainstream media coverage of... Continue reading

13. The Observatory

    Unhealthy Alliances Between Hospitals and TV Stations

    August 12, 2008 03:17 PM

    We were pleased to see that the Society of Professional Journalists has given an ethics award to Glen Mabie, the former news director at WEAU TV-13 in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Last January, Mabie resigned in protest... Continue reading

14. Campaign Desk

    McCain’s Health Proposals Under the Microscope, Part V

    August 8, 2008 10:51 AM

    This is the fifth and final entry in a series examining John McCain’s health proposals and how they have been covered in the press. The previous entries can be found here: Part I, Part II, Part III,... Continue reading

15. Campaign Desk

    Are the Dems Wimping Out?

    August 5, 2008 02:51 PM

    Big health care news was made over the weekend as builders of the Democratic platform began hewing their planks, including an especially large one for health care. Dems should be thrilled to hear that, after all that has been said... Continue reading

16. Campaign Desk

    McCain’s Health Proposals Under a Microscope, Part IV

    August 1, 2008 11:42 AM

    This is the fourth entry in a series examining John McCain’s health proposals and how they have been covered in the press. The previous entries can be found here: Part I, Part II, Part III. Ronald Williams,... Continue reading

17. Campaign Desk

    Comparing Ohio and Ontario by the Numbers

    July 29, 2008 12:55 PM

    A Laurel to the Akron Beacon Journal and reporter David Knox for a well-done piece showing that, healthwise, the Buckeye State compares disfavorably to its neighbors 60 miles across Lake Erie. It’s the kind of story that contradicts... Continue reading

18. Campaign Desk

    Battle For the Grassroots

    July 25, 2008 01:23 PM

    Timothy Noah over at Slate succinctly summed up the impending war over health reform. The lines of battle will be drawn between the insurance industry’s proposals and those advanced by Health Care for America Now, a newly-formed conglomerate... Continue reading

19. Campaign Desk

    McCain’s Health Proposals Under the Microscope, Part III

    July 24, 2008 11:21 AM

    This is the third entry in a series examining John McCain’s health proposals and how they have been covered in the press. Part I is found here, and Part II is found here. Most people are finally beginning... Continue reading

20. Campaign Desk

    McCain’s Health Proposals Under the Microscope, Part II

    July 18, 2008 11:19 AM

    This is the second entry in a series examining John McCain’s health proposals and how they have been covered in the press. The sound bite you hear most often from John McCain about his health care proposals is that he... Continue reading

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