The ACA Website Was An Easy Target for a Media Desperate to Play Pretend Journalist

[CatWoman]

http://www.politicususa.com/2013/12/01/media-clings-website-glitch-drama-refuse-white-house.html

it’s almost over and the media has a big sad. What will they talk about as Congress takes yet another break? Certainly not the many lies sold to them by the GOP this year. That would be embarrassing.

They could squeeze a few more drops of blood out of a website rollout that no one will remember in a year! Oh, yes. PARTY.

ABC isn’t alone in their attempts to portray themselves as serious journalists who will diligently fact check this White House (but not any other White House).

Reporters want outside data to confirm that the site is fixed, because the White House might lie to them. Unlike Republicans, whose word apparently is GOLD even though they lied for partisan purposes regarding the IRS “scandal” and the Benghazi “scandal”.

Sure, the media didn’t even bother to vet the anecdotal stories upon which it based the many of its claims that the site wasn’t working, but when the White House says a website is fixed, the media can’t just take their word like they can when a White House says Iraq has WMD.

Oh, gosh no. Especially when the website is so secret and there’s no way of testing it… except for testing it. Or getting a website developer to take a look. Or interviewing an insurance broker who uses it all of the time, like Politicus did. In fact, one can easily fact check these claims- there’s no need to run around screaming about how this administration is probably lying and they are so like Russia with the not allowing the media to take pictures of Obama any time they want and the lack of transparency with this website report.

[Laelth]

1. "Liberal Media" has always been a fiction (in regards to economic issues).

And in regards to foreign policy and government, in general. On all those topics, the media has been conservative for as long as I have been following politics.

But, and this is a big but, on social issues, I will grant, the media is pretty liberal (and it is to this social liberalism in the media that social conservatives object). I can see their point, but only so far as it relates to social issues.

-Laelth