The Mainstream Media’s latest fail: Town Hall idiocy gone unchecked

As Lyndon LaRouche supporters and faux Libertarians trickle to Town Hall events to disrupt the discussion of health care reform, the mainstream media has not only reported it as “grassroots uprisings,” they’ve gone so far to actually try and fan the flames of madness:

The most disturbing account came from Rep. David Price of North Carolina, who spoke with a stringer for one of the television networks at a large town-hall meeting he held in Durham.

The stringer said he was one of 10 people around the country assigned to watch such encounters. Price said he was told flatly: “Your meeting doesn’t get covered unless it blows up.” As it happens, the Durham audience was broadly sympathetic to reform efforts. No “news” there.

Read the rest of E.J. Dionne’s piece in the Washington Post. That so many in the U.S. seem to think these types of corporate and fringe protests are some type of watershed moment is purely the fault of the media.

The majority of Americans want health care reform and a public option. They always have. That is the story.

–WKW

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