Trudy Lieberman’s series on health care reform
Trudy Lieberman directs the health and medical reporting program in the graduate school of journalism at City University of New York, and is a longtime contributing editor to the Columbia Journalism Review. Her reporting on single payer’s silencing by the corporate media is among the best I have read. And her style is funny and her op-eds extremely up to date.
For her excellent series on Max Baucus rhetorical (and other) devices to undermine any attempt for real health care reform click here.
Her piece on Celinda Lake, the mind behind the Democrats’ health care campaign, is a true gem.
Below goes a selected paragraph:
“First there was Frank Luntz. Now, Celinda Lake is trying to do for the Dems what Luntz did for the GOP. Lake, a longtime Democratic strategist, has been hard at work crafting the right words and phrases to persuade the public that Dems really do have their best health care interests in mind. For months, politicians, advocates, and especially the president have talked about “affordable, quality” health care—a Lake-fashioned phrase that has caught on big time. Reporters have repeated these words without providing any context about what they mean—that is, if they mean anything. Insurance premiums lower than $12,000? A guarantee that your doc will never make a mistake? Take your pick. Those words are as hollow as a straw. They’re supposed to be.”
For the truth about universal health care US style, the 2006 Massachusetts experiment, click here.
For Ms Lieberman’s complete archive click here.
Saw you on Democracy Now! today. Thank you for the valuable information that you shared.
Hi Nathan,
Thanks for your kind words. I never was on Democracy Now, however! But it is among the best, if not the best, source of information about domestic and foreign policy issues I’ve ever come across.
To keep up to date, I first read the New York Times, to learn what “the establishment” wants me to believe the world is all about. Then I listen to Amy Goodman’s show, to learn what the world is really all about
Claudia