Sunday, August 23, 2009

CNN’s Obamacare Q&A Only Generates Greater Confusion on the Democrats’ Muddled Plans « NewsReal Blog

CNN’s Obamacare Q&A Only Generates Greater Confusion on the Democrats’ Muddled Plans « NewsReal Blog: "For a solid hour Saturday, I watched with great anticipation as CNN anchor Drew Griffin and his dynamo fact-finding team tackled viewer questions on health care reform in a lengthy Q&A, that completely lacked the A part.

Under the headline “Health Care: Your Questions Answered,” the team set out to dispel the many myths surrounding the health care reform bill being pushed by House Democrats, and to bring clarity to this exceedingly complicated issue.

Griffin’s crack team of health care reform experts included Lori Robertson of FactCheck.org and Angie Holan of PolitiFact.org, along with CNN’s ambitious young Josh Levs filtering the questions through to the team via a gigantic touchscreen monitor thingy.

Yes, they had all the high-tech bells and whistles. What they lacked was answers. After 60 minutes of vague, noncommittal responses, only two things are clearer to me:"

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