Drew Altman’s “Pulling It Together”
2009 September 30
In his weekly roundup, Kaiser Family Foundation’s Drew Altman dissects the challenging position that the media is in with health reform reporting, the role it played during the August recess town hall events, and the impact on issues like health reform when the media becomes a part of the political process and strategy.
The media can’t wave a magic wand and change how politics works today, but it is the one great balancer in the system and when it becomes part of the political process and no longer stands apart from it we lose a lot.
Read The Media’s Challenge in Health Reform
