Stimulus May Provide Relief for States and the Jobless on Health Insurance

New York Times by Robert Pear | Jan. 28, 2009 (Special Report)

The stimulus bill working its way through Congress is not just a package of spending increases and tax cuts intended to jolt the nation out of recession. For Democrats, it is also a tool for rewriting the social contract with the poor, the uninsured and the unemployed, in ways they have long yearned to do. Full Story »

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by Michele Kelly - Jan. 29, 2009

This is not quality journalism. The reporter should have identified the angle of health care spending as part of the stimulus package in the lede graph. Instead, he casts the story as an opinion piece, generalizing the stimulus bill as Democrats "rewriting the social contract."

I am an Obama supporter and a liberal. I support rewriting the social contract, an opinion I am entitled to hold and express. The reporter is supposed report information, which he does with the story, but the information is buried.