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Inside the Insurers’ Bag of Tricks
Two newspapers take a hard look
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 4, 2008 at 02:59 PM
Back in February we praised the Los Angeles Times and its reporter, Lisa Girion, for tailing California’s big health insurers... More
Watch the Democrats, Part II
The Hill’s skeptical story still stands
By Trudy Lieberman May 27, 2008 at 11:55 AM
A story in The Hill a few weeks ago, which we reported on, offered some grim comments from members of... More
No More “Socialized Medicine” — Part II
The New York Times gets it right, too
By Trudy Lieberman May 21, 2008 at 09:25 AM
Even before The Associated Press declared that John McCain was wrong when he called the Democratic candidates' health plans socialized... More
Do Dems Want Health-Care Reform?
Some hedging in the halls of Congress
By Trudy Lieberman May 19, 2008 at 12:39 PM
Health care reform won’t happen no matter how forcefully the candidates push unless Congress goes along. While the Democratic contenders... More
No More “Socialized Medicine”—at least from the AP
One loaded term down, many to go
By Trudy Lieberman May 15, 2008 at 08:15 AM
Maybe John McCain still believes that the health car plans offered by Democratic candidates “move closer to a nationalized health... More
Dick Cheney’s Health Care
Good enough for you? Moyers raises the equity question
By Trudy Lieberman May 13, 2008 at 10:32 AM
Bill Moyers Journal last week featured the California Nurses Association--not the usual Moyers Q and A with a guest, but... More
About Those Holes in Your Health Policy
As campaigns discuss the uninsured, the insured have their own problems
By Trudy Lieberman May 12, 2008 at 09:00 AM
How ironic that the campaign has been marked by Democrats pushing for universal health insurance coverage just as the country... More
The World’s Best Health Care—Really?
John McCain’s campaign canard
By Trudy Lieberman May 8, 2008 at 08:30 AM
The Rocky Mountain News’s coverage of John McCain’s campaign stop in Denver last week raises an important issue for reporters,... More
McCain’s Health-Care Muddle
What’s he doing? Don’t ask the media
By Trudy Lieberman May 1, 2008 at 01:24 PM
John McCain finally came forth this week with what his campaign dubbed a major policy speech, laying out his To... More
Missing: Single-Payer in Pennsylvania
What David Brancaccio, and the rest of the press, left out
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 30, 2008 at 03:01 PM
The Pennsylvania primary may be over, but one of the campaign’s hottest and most fiercely contested issues—whether the state on... More
Health Reform and the Single Girl
A fresh take on the candidate’s health care ideas—from Glamour
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 25, 2008 at 01:06 PM
Health reform reportage could use some freshening up. We’ve been through nearly seven months of pronouncements, misstatements, and miscues, of... More
Memo to McCain: Dems Are Not Calling for Government Health Care
Stephanopoulos tries (unsuccessfully) to set the record straight
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 22, 2008 at 11:00 AM
On his This Week program on Sunday, ABC’s George Stephanopoulos seemed to try to redeem his thoroughly unstellar performance in... More
McCain’s Quiet Medicare Bombshell
Privatizing Medicare one inch at a time
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 18, 2008 at 10:00 AM
Tuesday night the News Hour with Jim Lehrer dutifully reported that John McCain had been in Pittsburgh that day—tax day,... More
$17 Million a Day to Influence Congress
Health interests dole out the dough to get their way
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 16, 2008 at 01:22 PM
On Bill Moyers Journal Friday night, David Beckmann, who heads the hunger advocacy group Bread for the World, recalled his... More
The Forgotten Health Issue
Why is no one talking about long-term care?
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 14, 2008 at 09:00 AM
The Los Angeles Times provided a wide opening for the media to ask the candidates about their plans for long-term... More
Globe Dissects McCain’s Health Plan
More questions raised than answered
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 8, 2008 at 12:54 PM
Cheers to The Boston Globe for taking a look at John McCain’s ideas for health reform. McCain had pretty much... More
Hillary’s Bad Facts
How should the press handle a health care stumble?
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 7, 2008 at 11:45 AM
For the last few weeks Hillary Clinton has been telling a health care horror story that deeply touched her and... More
Looking Under Hillary’s Caps
On health care costs, readers need help with the fine print
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 3, 2008 at 01:18 PM
Hillary Clinton brought a bit of news to the health beat last week, revealing to New York Times reporter Kevin... More
Elizabeth Edwards on John McCain’s Health Policy
Someone has to translate
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 1, 2008 at 01:50 PM
Elizabeth Edwards told some 500 health journalists the other day that John McCain’s health care plan was like “painting lipstick... More
A Health Care Conversation Opener
A North Carolina blogger cuts through the chaff
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 26, 2008 at 10:29 AM
If bloggers are the new citizen journalists, then it’s good to see citizens talking about health care. Not always, actually—there... More
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
Barack Obama: ‘those old times aren’t coming back’
“It used to be there were local newspapers everywhere. If you wanted to be a journalist, you could really make a good living working for your hometown paper”
The Guardian’s editor opens up on Reddit
Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, answered questions in an Ask Me Anything
The (almost) lost speech of Justice Anthony Kennedy
How his insightful remarks about the Constitution inadvertently make the case for a Supreme Court “media pool”
Fox News sues TVEyes for copyright infringement
Says subscription service sells access to its content without permission nor compensation
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
