Spectacular Fib: How Horrid PBS Health Care Reporting Morphed Into an

Tom Blumer
February 8th, 2010 3:23 PM
Over the weekend, poor and biased media reporting, dysfunctional politics, blindly ambitious activism, and economic ignorance fed on each other to produce a phenomenally false narrative that went out to hundreds of thousands if not millions of people. The result not only doesn't pass the smell test; it fails the stench test from a mile away. The first origins of the activist narrative burst…
 

Organizing for Apathy: NYT Column On OFA Ignores This Week's Pathetic

Tom Blumer
August 15th, 2009 10:07 AM
In an August 14 report appearing on the front page of the paper's August 15 print edition ("Health Debate Fails to Ignite Obama’s Web"), Jeff Zeleny of the New York Times (pictured at right) gave readers a fairly accurate impression, while avoiding the word, of activism turning into apathy in Barack Obama's DNC- and White House-orchestrated Organizing for America (OFA) effort. While Zeleny's…