The horror of being a (gasp!) impartial journalist.
Via Mediaite:
MSNBC analyst Timothy Noah accused the press corps Tuesday morning of abdicating its responsibility for informing the public of the varieties of methods for signing up for the Affordable Care Act, while host Thomas Roberts argued the media had done all it could short of barging into people’s homes and signing them up themselves.
“There’s a limited amount of time that the uninsured have to sign up for Obamacare, and they are not being given very good information,” Noah said, arguing that major newspapers had focused on the national (and malfunctioning) healthcare exchange website to the exclusion of more successful state-based portals. “I must say the press is severely at fault here…The press is really not providing some basic consumer information that people are going to need in order avoid paying a penalty.”
“But when it comes to Healthcare.gov, it’s not the media’s fault that the website doesn’t work,” Roberts countered. “It’s not the media’s fault that Republican governors have been obstructionists in states to set up their healthcare exchanges.”