Topic: Dumb Press Tricks
A great example of how twisted news coverage is getting on both sides of the health care debate.
Newsbusters.org caught CBS lying about that "Harvard Medical" study which turned out to be from a pro-single payer group; too bad, because that was the lead to an otherwise not very objectionable news segment (it's really too bad when you have to pat CBS on the back for only lying ONCE on a story, but that's how it's been since the 1968 Tet Offensive).
Then Newsbusters went overboard, not content with exposing the blatant lie, and started playing right-wing advocate themselves. That wouldn't be so bad, but they gave a really good impression of being soulless bastards.
You really can't trust packaged news on the heatlhcare beat - everyone's got an agenda. As sorry as it sounds, you have to find the people who lie the least, and double-check everything they tell you.
