AllGov - News - Majority Want Single-Payer…But Not on Television

Public opinion surveys have consistently revealed that Americans like the idea of a government-funded health care option, like Medicare, to help solve the problem of the uninsured and underinsured in the United States. But news reporting by television and print media sources controlled by the nations’ largest conglomerates hasn’t reflected this favoritism for a single-payer plan, according to the media watchdog group Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting. For example, NBC News only broadcast one favorable mention of single-payer in the first six months of 2009.

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