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Last night Jon Stewart mocked CNN for their lack of fact checking (video above). While watching this last night I noted that the media generally just reported the claims made by the America’s Health Insurance Plans about health care reform, along with brief responses from others questioning the validity of their numbers. In contrast, bloggers such as Jonathan Cohn and Ezra Klein offered actual analysis of the numbers yesterday to debunk their claims.
It is often noted that the blogosphere does depend upon the mainstream media for reporting of the news, with many blog posts being based upon material coming from the news media. That is quite true, but increasingly it is in the blogosphere where we find meaningful explanation beyond the headlines. When we do turn to television for news, John Stewart shows once again how his fake news show is often superior to the news presented on the real news channels.