So we have a suggestion. Instead of the gloom and doom scenarios or the rah-rah stories with quotes announcing that the golden moment for health reform has arrived, let’s report on why the country needs health care reform in the first place. We urge the media to examine what’s really happening to real people. The Philadelphia Inquirer is setting an example for how to do that. My next post will show what the paper is doing.
Campaign Desk
09:45 AM - November 10, 2008
Two New Story Lines for Health Care
A march to victory or a rollback of ambitions?
‘See you on the other side’ - Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism
#Realtalk: This is the best moment to be in journalism - The old stuff isn’t coming back, but that’s okay
Streams of consciousness - Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?
Sticking with the truth - How ‘balanced’ coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism
An ink-stained stretch - Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register—and the newspaper industry?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (19)
What was James Rosen thinking?
How much of Rosen’s trouble is of his own making?
Cat Fall: A modern tragedy
Max Fisher and the problem with foreign-affairs blogging
“I hope my nudity doesn’t bother you. We’re completely committed to openness here”
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
Uptown Messenger – Hyperlocal news for a neighborhood in New Orleans
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
In both cases, the media narrative continues to exclude reportage of nurses and nursing issues. How is the public ever going to be able to make fully informed decisions without understanding that the three million registered nurses provide over 95% of all reimbursed healthcare services, and have a societal and statutory mandate to serve as patient advocates and to assure patient care quality and patient safety?
A notable exception was the Wash Post story yesterday by Mary Otto about traveling primary healthcare services to Appalachian indigent patients. It applied personal stories and affects of insufficient healthcare affordability and availability, and it demonstrated the critical piece that professional nursing plays, as well as what a ground up essential healthcare services model looks like.
I blogged about the disconnect.
Posted by Annie on Mon 10 Nov 2008 at 11:45 AM