http://www.truthdig.com/about/staff/105/ Truthdig, a Web magazine that provides expert in-depth coverage of current affairs as well as a variety of thoughtful, provocative content assembled from a progressive point of view. Editor, Robert Scheer. Publisher, Zuade Kaufman. en editor@truthdig.com Copyright 2009 2009-11-05T23:03:33+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/ http://www.truthdig.com/images/rss_feed_promo.gif http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091105_keep_the_government_out_of_the_news_business/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091105_keep_the_government_out_of_the_news_business/ bill boyarsky, cold war, government, i.f. stone, journalism, leonard downie jr., michael schudson, news, nonprofit,

I’ve been thinking of I.F. Stone while reading the growing stack of reports and essays giving recommendations on how to save the declining news business. The outrageous solution increasingly favored by the journalism establishment is one that Stone would have hated—turning to Washington for help.

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]]> 2009-11-05T23:03:33+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20091103_inventing_la_the_chandlers_and_their_times/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20091103_inventing_la_the_chandlers_and_their_times/ book, boyarsky, california, chandler, conservatives, excerpt, history, los angeles, los angeles times, media, money, newspapers, Book Excerpt

The Chandler family’s L.A. Times practically invented one of the great American cities. This is the story of the paper’s fall toward mediocrity.

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]]> 2009-11-03T10:23:25+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091019_health_care_reform_insurance_companies_can_believe_in/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091019_health_care_reform_insurance_companies_can_believe_in/ bill boyarsky, charles schumer, health care reform, health insurance, kaiser, max baucus, obama, patrick leahy, public option, senate finance committee, Bill Boyarsky's Columns

It’s now clear that health care “reform” is a bonanza for the insurance companies. But these acquisitive businesses want even more. Their efforts to increase their profits are at the center of the clandestine Senate and House negotiations currently shaping the health bill.

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]]> 2009-10-20T04:20:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091009_hes_earned_it_for_now/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091009_hes_earned_it_for_now/ afghanistan, barack obama, dick cheney, disarmament, george w. bush, israel, nobel peace prize, palestinian, russia, Bill Boyarsky's Columns

In Obama’s nine months as president, he has put U.S. relations with Russia on a more constructive course; has seen Iran agree to open its nuclear facility near Qom to international inspection; and, despite Israeli and Palestinian intransigence, has kept the two sides negotiating with America’s dogged envoy, George Mitchell, who helped bring peace to Northern Ireland.

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]]> 2009-10-10T02:03:45+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091005_the_missing_health_care_debate/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091005_the_missing_health_care_debate/ boyarsky, california, congress, corruption, debate, government, health, health care, insurance, money, obama, politics, public option, regulation, senate, venice, Bill Boyarsky's Columns

One way to give people a good deal on their health care is the so-called public option. A better way is the kind of strong regulation that isn’t even being discussed.

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]]> 2009-10-06T06:47:15+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090923_obama_tv_how_the_president_saved_health_care/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090923_obama_tv_how_the_president_saved_health_care/ afghanistan, boyarsky, campaign, congress, debate, health, health care, letterman, media, obama, politics, race, republicans, speech, stephanopoulos, tv,

By monopolizing the airwaves with his calm rationality, President Obama has retaken control of the national health care debate, which was beginning to descend into ideological hysteria.

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]]> 2009-09-24T09:54:21+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090910_a_speech_even_insurance_companies_could_love/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090910_a_speech_even_insurance_companies_could_love/ boyarsky, campaign, congress, democrats, government, health, health care, house, media, medicare, obama, politics, public option, republicans, speech, Bill Boyarsky's Columns

President Barack Obama’s health care reform speech to Congress Wednesday night was impassioned, but it also echoed a lot of ideas from insurance company lobbying.

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]]> 2009-09-10T08:26:52+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090903_dont_be_fooled_by_the_public_option/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090903_dont_be_fooled_by_the_public_option/ boyarsky, congress, economy, health, house, law, media, obama, politics, senate,

The fight over the public option has occupied much of the media coverage, but left unsaid is the fact that weeks of behind-the-scenes negotiations have weakened the public option proposal to the point that it is hardly an option at all.

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]]> 2009-09-03T08:28:40+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090825_waxman_gears_up_for_health_care_showdown/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090825_waxman_gears_up_for_health_care_showdown/ health care, hospitals, insurance, john dingell, jon stewart, medicare, obama, senate, tom daschle, Bill Boyarsky's Columns

By the time Congress returns from its recess and takes another whack at the health insurance mess, Rep. Henry Waxman will have started revealing the deceit that protects health business profiteers.

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]]> 2009-08-26T02:19:21+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090219_health_care_reform_cant_wait/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090219_health_care_reform_cant_wait/ baucus, boyarsky, campaign, clinton, congress, daschle, democrats, economy, government, insurance, obama, politics, recession, republicans, taxes, waxman, Bill Boyarsky's Columns

The national health care crisis, intensified by the recession, is so bad that nothing can be permitted to stop reform of the system, not even the implosion of the president’s health czar.

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