Bad media coverage makes the people ignorant and stoopid

Yesterday a Kaiser Family Foundation poll brought us some startling news: 22% of Americans wrongly believe the Affordable Care Act has already been repealed, and another 26 percent are unsure whether it has been or are unwilling to say.

Today, the gang at MSNBC's First Read offers an intriguing suggestion: What if that public ignorance is rooted in the huge disparity in media coverage between court decisions rulling the health law unconstitutional and those upholding it?

As we said when yet another poll showed a sizable portion of the American public thinking that -- incorrectly -- President Obama is a Muslim, everyone deserves blame here. The politicians. The citizenry. And especially the news media. We aren't doing our jobs when the populace is this misinformed. As a collective, look at how the court decisions striking down the health law get covered vs. the decisions to uphold it. And then look at the conservative media outlets and their coverage of this issue.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2011/02/bad_media_coverage_makes_the_p.html

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