In Praise of Inexperience ( Sarah threatens journalists more than obamacare )
Accountability Journalism An Associated Press dispatch, written by Erica Werner and Richard Alonso-Zaldivar, compares the House and Senate ObamaCare bills. We'd like to compare this dispatch to the AP's dispatch earlier this week "fact checking" Sarah Palin's new book. Here goes: Number of AP reporters assigned to story: • ObamaCare bills: 2 • Palin book: 11 Number of pages in document being covered: • ObamaCare bills: 4,064 • Palin book: 432 Number of pages per AP reporter: • ObamaCare bill: 2,032 • Palin book: 39.3 On a per-page basis, that is, the AP devoted 52 times as much manpower to...
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Tags: Accountability, Alonso, Ap Reporter, Erica, House Bills, Inexperience, Journalism, Journalists, Manpower, Page Basis, Sarah Palin, Senate Bills, Werner, Zaldivar