Over at The American Prospect, Dean Baker’s “Beat The Press” column regularly questions the economic assumptions (and knowledge) behind mostly mainstream media reporting. This post on the differences between Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid as a “fast-growing entitlement benefit program” is typical – and classic.
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NYT: Apple’s Spat With Google Is Getting Personal
Will anything good come from this brawl? And if so, what?
AJR: Plugging the Gap
The American Journalism Review examines James O’Shea’s startup, the Chicago News Cooperative.
The Curated Web
Marisa Meltzer, in the latest issue of The American Prospect, analyzes Tumblr as a significant Web trend.
RealClearPolitics carefully counts House Democratic votes on health care.
Penguin Books Rocks The iPad
The big lie about ‘reconciliation’
E. J. Dionne manages to keep the Post’s op-ed page honest.
The Atlantic’s web site redesign is impressive.
A good review of a bad book…
… and now I don’t have to read it. Michelle Cottle in The New Republic on GOP Pollster Frank Luntz’s What Americans Really Want…Really
“Matalin’s mendacity” – and others’, too
Steve Benen in the Washington Monthly has the basics on the intensely partisan politics of the reconciliation process.
Update: Benen adds to the post above, via NBC’s Chuck Todd. Health care reform has already passed the Senate with 60 votes; reconciliation is about a few budget-related amendments. Anyone ignoring that fact is missing the major part of the story.
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