Derek Thompson, a staff writer for TheAtlantic.com, has some fun Tuesday with a recent Onion business news story that was extremely vague.
“The big picture of economic stories eludes a news audience. During the health care debate, for example, I recall a lot of people who could cite the slogans and jokes (Death Panels, ‘You lie,’ socialism, hands off my government Medicare, etc) but say very little about the actual bill — what an exchange was, for example, and why they should even care.
“Who’s to blame? Nobody and everybody, I guess. It’s easier for both hosts and audiences to debate bumper-stickers than bills. In fact, you could argue that some important parts of the health care debate — in particular, end-of-life-care — got more attention, some of it useful, because the Death Panels bumper-sticker made for such a sexy newspeg for discussing the actual bill.
“The challenge is how to find the sweet spot between sexy and contexty. I don’t have a definitive answer to that challenge.”
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