Last year The St. Petersburg Times created Politifact, a fact-checking site designed to measure the truth of candidates’ statements during the 2008 campaign. That got the paper a 2009 Pulitzer Prize. On the heels of that success, it’s kept up its work. The paper is now focusing on national issues, including health care. It’s got …
Remember that Matt Taibbi piece in Rolling Stone which excoriated Goldman Sachs as both the symbol and the principal executioner of much of the Wall Street failures of the past few years? The financial press has predictably tried to diminish it as work believed only by “half-literate bloggers.” Now comes Dean Starkman of the Columbia …
Steven Pearlstein at the WaPo: The recent attacks by Republican leaders and their ideological fellow-travelers on the effort to reform the health-care system have been so misleading, so disingenuous, that they could only spring from a cynical effort to gain partisan political advantage. By poisoning the political well, they’ve given up any pretense of being …