A guy from Editor & Publisher magazine was on TV this week having looked at treatment of two events by news organization Web sites: He reported that Fox News offered more than 40 videos on the death of Anna Nicole Smith, and one on the Walter Reed Medical Center scandal.
I know thats not shocking to anyone...not anyone with half a brain cell. And here is one Democrat who I will let have her rant against the Bush administration since she did vote against the war in 2002.
"They have lowballed the cost of this war, and the cost of caring for our soldiers. ... It goes to the top, to the highest level. The Bush administration wants this country to feel there is no cost to war," Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., said this week after a testy exchange with Army brass.
She is a senior member of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, tapped by Majority Leader Harry Reid to take the lead on veterans care.She has training for the role. As the Iraq war escalated in 2004, the Bush administration said it would shut down the Department of Veterans Affairs' John C. Wainwright Medical Center in Walla Walla.
Murray blocked the closure by exposing VA officials to angry citizens. She called a field hearing for which more than 400 people turned out, and at which major veterans organizations defended the hospital.
The senator was back at it a year later, helping reveal a $1.5 billion shortfall in veterans health programs. She stood back as Republican congressional leaders professed shock and surprise, and passed an emergency spending bill.
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