Trust the media or Not

      Does the media have any chance of making you feel like you can trust them? I am tired of thinking that we are getting the whole story but not. The fractured nature of the media is a HUGE issue for me. I like to get the whole story and never do. The fractured nature of the media and the drama that they need to capture the viewer and thus bolster ratings. I say that they should just report the facts and let the public make up their own minds. Look at this article from soda head http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/do-you-trust-the-media/question-3241425/?link=ibaf&q=media+trust+united+states
Tell me what you think.

Promises made will the media hold the President accountable?

      The President made a promise to the American people that the web site will be better at the first of December. The media did not report on that until this morning. That was the only time that I saw it. I feel that the media is no longer on the side of the administration. I have noticed that there is more negative reporting as of late. The media in my opinion made the man and now are pushing away as of late due in large part to the handling of the healthcare issue. The link here http://jacksonville.com/opinion/premium-opinion/2013-11-29/story/mondays-letters-criticism-president, This is an example of the criticism of the President.
    The following video is an example of the Left leaning news reporting on the administration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-RZEg-lJV8, Do you think that the new media has turned on the Obama administration?   

When Will It Work

The Healthcare webs site that the government as set up has hit several snags. The media has as of late been hard and critical of the administration for the handling of the roll out. Does the lack of being ready and unable to run a website make you nervous when you think of the how the will run your healthcare? I am. To want to see an example of how the government treats those that they are to take care of , look at the VA.
Now the media was hard on their case at the start of the whole roll out and the issues that people were experiencing, but as of late the media has or seems to have forgotten about it . This is an example of fractured coverage. They never, the media stay on the stories and most often than not don't often give you all of the information. That is left up to you the individual to keep up with the twist and turns of the story. So like the title says when will it work? I have no answers for that, but I have no intention to sign up for the program until all of the bugs are worked out.

Media strikes again

     Job numbers faked! How does that make you feel? In case you have been in a whole in the ground in the election of 2012 the job numbers were not real. Is this a case of the media pushing their own agenda to have the candidate that they supported re-elected? Bias in the media is rampant and where will it end? The media has a very important function in the information that they relate to you and I. They should report the facts as they are and not what they want it to be in order to bolster the candidate that they support.

     Has the media lost its way? Can you trust what they are reporting when it comes to politics, I can't. We as a nation have become sheep or cattle if you will. We are moved from one side to the next with ease based on what is reported in the news. We all know that they skew the stories, yet it is packaged in such a way that we believe it.

     The politicians have become adapt at using the media to twist the issues and confuse the public with the medias help. Is there anything that we as consumers of the news help to hold the news accountable?

In class we had a discussion on the venue for politicians to discuss their policies. John Stewart had one of the Obama administration official on his show. Kathleen Sebelius was on the show and discussing the problems with the roll out of the website. The fact that she went on his show to discuss the problems is a joke. Discussions like that need to be in an unbiased forum with a credible journalist not a comedian. I feel that this is their way of lying to the public and not having to answer the hard questions. The fact that they go on shows like this is undermines creditable journalist. Watch the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=M9A9VE-NH0w.
Now read the Time magazines article on the same topic  http://swampland.time.com/2013/10/22/sebelius-dodges-questions-on-obamacare-glitches/
Make up your own mind.

     I want to look a promises that were made when the healthcare discussion, wait what discussion. There was no debate there was we have to pass this bill. the fact is that the President made promises to the American public to curry favor for his legislation. The two main promises that he made are that if you like your plan you can keep your plan, and the cost of you healthcare coverage will go down by $2500. dollars.
    
      Lets look at the first. There has been several news reports that show that employers are dropping their coverage ( due to cost). The most recent was in California where 100,000 people got notice that they were  being dropped. The second part of this is the is the price there has been several reports that the cost to comply to the new rules, has driven up the cost 5 to 10 times what the cost of coverage was prior to the mandates that Obama care implements.

I have added two articles that I find interesting. Read them and decide for your self.

http://www.foxbusiness.com/personal-finance/2013/10/31/obamacares-haunting-3-health-care-promises-that-turned-out-to-be-false

http://news.yahoo.com/former-obama-administration-official-obama-pay-price-healthcare-180310167--abc-news-topstories.html