Wednesday, February 15, 2006
This is "Journalism"?
A warning to the Human Resources department at the Boston Herald; it would appear that one of your reporters, a Ms. Kimberly Atkins, is using your paper to try to land a gig with your rival - the Boston Globe.
There is simply no other way to explain the ludicrously, outrageously biased piece of garbage that poses for a news story in today's Herald, authored by Ms. Atkins, with the title: Health plan delay costly.
A question, Ms. Atkins: Why in Heaven's name should this have anything to do with Gov. Romney's "frequent" out-of-state trips? Or perhaps you have forgotten that the Governor has already, long-ago in fact, submitted his own healthcare reform plan to the legislature - a solid, balanced plan, by the way - only to have it laughed out of the chamber by the Democrats who, in case your memory has completely failed, control roughly 87% of the seats in that branch of state government.
Oh, so now you're trying to paint this as a standard "finger-pointing" story. Gotcha.
Precisely.
And this has to do with the legislature's failure to do, well, anything on this issue how, precisely?
Check your voice-mail, Ms. Atkins. I'm sure the Globe has left a message for you. Pity for you that they happen to be hemorrhaging circulation at the moment - probably because of crappy "reporting" like this, by the way.
You should fit right in.
There is simply no other way to explain the ludicrously, outrageously biased piece of garbage that poses for a news story in today's Herald, authored by Ms. Atkins, with the title: Health plan delay costly.
Gov. Mitt Romney admitted for the first time yesterday that the state likely will lose more than $1 million a day in federal dollars for failing to implement a new health-care plan by July, but denied that his frequent out-of-state trips contributed to the delay.
A question, Ms. Atkins: Why in Heaven's name should this have anything to do with Gov. Romney's "frequent" out-of-state trips? Or perhaps you have forgotten that the Governor has already, long-ago in fact, submitted his own healthcare reform plan to the legislature - a solid, balanced plan, by the way - only to have it laughed out of the chamber by the Democrats who, in case your memory has completely failed, control roughly 87% of the seats in that branch of state government.
Instead, Romney blamed state lawmakers, who continue to haggle in hopes of finding a compromise between plans offered by the House and Senate for a health-care overhaul plan before the July 1 deadline, a requirement to continue receiving $385 million in federal assistance.
Oh, so now you're trying to paint this as a standard "finger-pointing" story. Gotcha.
"The Senate president and the speaker of the House know that I'm available at the drop of a hat" by phone, said Romney, just back from a four-day trip to the Olympics in Turin, Italy.
Precisely.
It was one of nearly a dozen out-of-state trips Romney has made in the past six weeks as he mulls a run for president in 2008. ...
The Herald reported yesterday that Romney has averaged nearly two out-of-state trips a week since returning from an 11-day family Christmas holiday at his Utah vacation home.
And this has to do with the legislature's failure to do, well, anything on this issue how, precisely?
Check your voice-mail, Ms. Atkins. I'm sure the Globe has left a message for you. Pity for you that they happen to be hemorrhaging circulation at the moment - probably because of crappy "reporting" like this, by the way.
You should fit right in.
# posted by Doc J @ 9:43 AM 
