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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (18070)	7/12/2001 1:43:04 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Glad you posted that. I keep looking for examples of liberal bias so let's talk about this one. <<Big network anchors and reporters cheer stories and public figures they like and skewer stories and public figures they dislike. Typical of this approach was Bob Schieffer's comment on the June 21 "CBS Evening News.'' Speaking of the "patients' bill of rights,'' Schieffer said: "Reformers want to give patients who are denied coverage the right to sue their HMO in state courts, and that's the hang-up. Most Republicans believe that would just drive up costs. They want to cap damages and try the cases in federal court. Reformers say that would take too long since federal dockets are already so crowded.'' Reformers (good people) vs. Republicans (bad people). Get it?>> Yeah, I get it. But it's mistaken, IMO. This paragraph lays out the issues just fine, I think, and so apparently does the article's author. The article takes exception to the juxtaposition of reformer vs. Republican. The problem is, I don't know how to say it any better. Instead of "reformers" they could have said "reformers, which in includes Democrats and some Republicans" of simply "Democrats and some Republicans" but it seems obvious that that's what was meant and words aren't wasted on half hour news shows. I think you'd have to be looking for it to see liberal bias there. How would you have said it? Karen