WaPo Unleashes Army Of Anonymous Sources To Slag Public Option

I've said for a long time now that the press has long endeavored to diminish the public support for the "public option," characterizing it as one of those foolish and untenable pipe dreams of "the left" when it actually has mainstream support. At the same time, the Obama administration has spun like a weather vane, conveying that a robust "public option" was essential to health care reform on one day, shruggingly suggesting that it would not be all that ... Full Story »

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by Dwight Rousu - Aug. 19, 2009

Linkins points out off message anonymous sources as both a possible problem from within the Obama administration, and as a major problem in the WaPo using anonymous sources when the message seems to align with their political biases.

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