Accountability Journalism An Associated Press dispatch, written by Erica Werner and Richard Alonso-Zaldivar, compares the House and Senate ObamaCare bills. We'd like to compare this dispatch to the AP's dispatch earlier this week "fact checking" Sarah Palin's new book. Here goes:
Number of AP reporters assigned to story:
ObamaCare bills: 2
Palin book: 11
Number of pages in document being covered:
ObamaCare bills: 4,064
Palin book: 432
Number of pages per AP reporter:
ObamaCare bill: 2,032
Palin book: 39.3
On a per-page basis, that is, the AP devoted 52 times as much manpower to the memoir of a former Republican officeholder as to a piece of legislation that will cost trillions of dollars and an untold number of lives. That's what they call accountability journalism.
Friday, November 20, 2009
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