It’s nothing new. Humans seem to prefer faith to facts. And I’m not talking about religion.
Howard Kurtz got lots of (liberal) blog links early this week with an article about the health care “debate” and how facts have been relegated to the sidelines. Kurtz now reports that it was Monday’s most commented piece on the paper’s website as people poured forth their vitriol from both sides of the health care aisle.
Kurtz’s main point was pretty simple: Despite the fact that many reporters demonstrably proved that the death panels myth was …

Get Real is in China this week working with Chinese journalists in a large provincial capital not far from Shanghai. Our assignment here is to help teach these radio and television reporters, producers, and editors something about the way the media works in the U.S. and how that might apply here. In many ways things aren’t much different.
Yes the media is owned and controlled by the government but in most day-to-day operations that doesn’t really effect what these professionals do. As in the U.S. the media here is consumed with …

If  Barack Obama has an Achille’s Heel (if? who doesn’t…) it is almost certainly his arrogance. Most of the time he keeps it in check, or at least does a reasonably good job of masking it. When it peeks through he is generally quick to recognize the potential damage (“You’re nice enough, Hillary”). But this time his arrogance may once again cost Americans the chance at having the health care system as good as every other industrialized country in the world.
The arguments about the relative merits of various plans, the …