It would appear that some of the media are paying a price for their outrageous treatment of Sarah Palin and her family. Their continuing loss of viewers and readers is richly deserved.
Meanwhile, for people interested in her actual record, I’ve done a piece on Governor Palin’s effort to repeal Alaska’s burdensome and counterproductive CON statute for the American Spectator. Here’s an excerpt:
State CON laws originated, like so many bad health care ideas, with a mandate from the federal government. In 1974, states were effectively told by Washington that no new medical facilities could be built unless a “public need” had been demonstrated. The idea was to reduce costs, but the only measurable effect of this federal decree was a morass of bureaucratic red tape that stifled competition in the health care market.
And, like so many bad government ideas, the CON monster has been difficult to kill even after Washington tried to drive a stake through its heart:
In 1987, the federal statute was finally repealed, but many states inexplicably kept their CON processes in place. Alaska was one of them and, as Governor Palin put it in an editorial for the Anchorage Daily News, “Under our present Certificate of Need process, costs and needs don’t drive health-care choices — bureaucracy does. Our system is broken and expensive.”
The rest of the article can be read here.
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Dude, Us weekly? That’s the giant backlash against the evil left wing MSM? I’m almost falling out of my chair in laughter here.
Posted 05 Sep 2008 at 11:33 am ¶Hey Joseph C,
Posted 06 Sep 2008 at 10:05 pm ¶Who cares whether the media outlet is large or small, broadcast news or weekly magazine? The point is that there has to be some accountability by publishers to the people they ask to spend their hard-earned money on their publications. The feeling of some in the media that they can say anything they want and get away with it angers those of us who look to all media (large and small) for truth. These magazines are 100% consumer driven, and when the consumers walk away from them and their advertisers, that’s the best demonstration of people demanding accountability. Hit ‘em where it hurts - right smack in the accounts receivable. When this happens, other media outlets take notice. Perhaps they will learn from Us Weekly’s costly mistake. Do you get it now, or do you need me to explain it to you again using smaller, simpler words?
^Your ignorance burns thermonuclear when you talk about looking to a tabloid magazine sold at supermarket check out lanes “for truth”. Us Weekly is inherently not credible. That’s the point of it. They print a bunch of BS and sell so many copies that it doesn’t matter how much they get sued for lying. When you’re selling just short of 2 million copies a week losing 10,000 copies is nothing. Us Weekly going honest and doing real journalism would be far more damaging to their bottom line than this.
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