(Biased) Media coverage of health care court decisions

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Media coverage of health care court decisions
by Barbara Morrill
Wed Feb 02, 2011 at 09:30:03 AM PST

Since President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law last March, four federal courts have handed down decisions on its constitutionality, with two finding in favor of the law, and two striking down part or all of it.

On Tuesday, Steve Benen at the Washington Monthly compared the coverage those four decisions have received in the traditional media, and not surprisingly:

... the coverage discrepancy is overwhelming. One of the two pro-reform rulings didn't even make the Washington Post's A section at all. In literally every instance, the Republican-friendly rulings generated more coverage, with better placement, and longer stories than the rulings preferred by Democrats...

...Obviously a case of that liberal media bias we keep hearing about.