Of all the articles I read yesterday trying to wrap my head around what happened during the 7 1/2 hour health care summit, THIS one by David Bauder for the Associated Press stood out. A snippet:
By 2:30 p.m., at the opening of the session's second half, Fox News Channel had shifted to its studio show (occasionally showing a mute picture of the summit on a portion of its screen) and CNN's Wolf Blitzer was reporting on poll results. Both covered it fitfully in the afternoon. MSNBC moved on to the Finland-Sweden ice hockey game from the Olympics. PBS aired "Between the Lions."
Another one I totally agreed with:
Fox spent the most time presenting uninterrupted coverage before the lunch break. Afterward, the network cut back sharply following it after reporting that its online poll found 90 percent of respondents saying the event was just "political theater."
I agree that it was political theater and I don't see any true backlash due to bad behavior or performance on the part of the Republicans who were there. The only thing I find alarming today is the abundance of news coverage stating that either the senate bill or the bill proposed by the President this past week are going to be rammed through no matter what. So taxpayer dollars were wasted a charade yesterday when nobody was really planning to change anything.
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