Nance Greggs: Good News Is No News

[DemocratsForProgress]

As though any further proof were necessary, the reaction of the mainstream media to the launch of the Obamacare website, and its attendant glitches, has become yet another example of one overwhelming truth: if there is anything that can be used to discredit this President’s competency, motives, or ability to govern, it will be discussed 24/7 on every major news outlet ad nauseam.

Could the rollout of the Obamacare website have been smoother? Duh, do ya think? Should the website have been tested more extensively before launch? I’m leaning towards the bleedin’ obvious here. Should the website’s glitches have been anticipated and dealt with to every extent possible before its launch? I think “you’re damned fuckin’ real” sums it up nicely.

All of that being said, it is still a given that had the Obamacare website been perfect from day one, had millions of people been successfully registered without a hitch within weeks of its launch, had the site’s efficiency surpassed every expectation, no one would have heard about it – because when it comes to Obama’s achievements, the MSM is only interested in reporting perceived failure rather than any actual success.

To hear the media bobbleheads tell the tale, the website’s glitches have resulted in a disaster that ranks somewhere between the attack on Pearl Harbor and 9/11 – only much, much worse...

More at: http://www.democratsforprogress.com/2013/11/17/good-news-is-no-news/

[spartan61]

1. Once again Nance Greggs

has hit a home run!

[Cha]

2. Nailed, Nance!

"All of that being said, it is still a given that had the Obamacare website been perfect from day one, had millions of people been successfully registered without a hitch within weeks of its launch, had the site’s efficiency surpassed every expectation, no one would have heard about it – because when it comes to Obama’s achievements, the MSM is only interested in reporting perceived failure rather than any actual success."

The US media "bobbleheads" are Brainwashers



"The Obamacare website will be improved over the coming months, its glitches eliminated, its technical foibles dealt with, its capabilities expanded. But when that inevitably happens, you won’t hear about it from the MSM. That’s because Good News is No News, as far as the mindless chatterboxes who dominate the airwaves are concerned, while any bad news attributable to the current administration is the straw that gets spun, Rumplestiltskin-like, into fool’s gold."

Very Safe Prediction! ^^^^^^^^

Imagine a time when US corportatemediawhores have gone the way of the dinosaurs.

PS I was just thinking about you earlier today and here you are!

[davidpdx]

3. Right on Nance!

[madrchsod]

4. recommend....

[sheshe2]

5. As always spot on Nance!

Take it from Massachusetts~ It took some time yet we passed something damn close to ACA/ Obamacare.

LOL it was called Romneycare back then, when he was our absentee Gov. Repupukes were for it long before they hated it. It's true.

[tavalon]

9. Boy, do I know that

During the primaries I called ACA, Romneycare National, but back then, I hated the bill. I hadn't seen the light. I've seen it now and will always from here on out call it the Affordable Care Act, out of respect. Do I think it's perfect. Far from it, but I can see the far shore from here now. I couldn't then.

I can see single payer from here. Not today, not tomorrow, soon, though. And our President deserves accolades for getting anything through that do nothing Congress and around the do much to save their asses, insurance companies.

[NBachers]

6. "well-groomed, well-dressed, well-coiffed media cows"

[nikto]

7. It was the same for FDR

Most of the corporate press were on a nonstop hate-fest against
FDR during the 30s, drumming up as much opposition to The New Deal as possible.

It did hold FDR back from spending as much as he needed to,
and getting as many programs started as he needed.

As we all know now, WWII finally opened the flood gates of gov't spending and,
bye bye Great Depression.

[tavalon]

8. I see now how my account might have gotten messed up over at Nance's site

I think I mostly read her stuff over here.

This is an especially good one, not for the writing, which is, as always, stellar, sublime and even rude, as needed, but for its topic.

I have been an outspoken critic of some of President Obama's policies. I will again, I'm sure. But ACA, even with the glitches, gives me hope. Hope that Americans, once given a taste of reasonable healthcare, might rise up and demand single payer, even in Louisiana!

So, the only ding this administration gets for me on ACA is the same one Nance mentioned - they should have had that website singing Ava Maria and performing its job like a virtuoso. That said, this is a million times bigger than the computer roll out we did at my hospital and we had lots and lots of glitches.

Oh, I have some blame to throw around, but much of it is not directed at our President nor his staff. It's at the Republicans who are trying to sabotage it and the insurance companies who are behaving badly. I'm not going to call out my specific one, but it's behaving badly. I kind of wish I could give them the middle finger and go onto the exchange!

If I hear the ACA roll out compared to Bush's Katrina one more time, I don't really see how I can be held responsible for my actions. Stupidity on that level really makes me think that social Darwinism has failed. Teh stupid rule the earth.

Thanks, as always, for a good read, Nance. This was especially Ivins like, though she rarely used some of the spicier words you used but I think if she had heard the ACA/Katrina comparison, she might just have developed such a vocabulary on the spot (and in fact, in person, not on camera, she had a very spicy word collection at the tip of her tongue, but always with those slightly laughing eyes).

[Control-Z]

10. "...truth be told, the similarities between the aftermath of Katrina

and the problems with the Obamacare website cannot be easily dismissed. How many heart-wrenching photos of people standing on their rooftops, holding up hastily-crafted signs saying, “We cannot access the website – please send help!” have assaulted our senses since October 1st?"

[1StrongBlackMan]

11. I can’t tell you …

How glad I was to see a NG post this morning. It was right on and right on time.

Thank Nance Greggs!

[Cha]

12. K&R!!