Aug 13 2009
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“ We’re always pleased to put this stuff on the news. I hate to put it this way, but it’s great entertainment. And that’s what TV news is about. We don’t like to spend the time, mental energy and, most of all, financial resources actually covering an issue. Great video is all we ever care about. Give us a good mindless demonstration anytime.
— Former CNN correspondent Bob Franken in Politics Daily yesterday. While noting the above, he also makes sure to say that “little attention is being paid to all the complexities of health care, which is what the uproar should be all about.”
