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...journalists, Leonard Downie Jr. and Robert Kaiser are at the top of their field, the executive editor and senior correspondent, respectively, for the Washington Paistic practices, part plea for reform and part apology for the profession...
Downie and Kaiser introduce a further, personal bias into the book when they assert the superiority of newspapers to other forms of mass media. They neglect to any personal responsbility for the state of journalism in the 1990s, attributing its demise to a lack of funding and a redirection towards entertainment and opinion. There is some discussion of what exactly constitutes good journalism—including an interesting distinction between journalism that is “objective,” which is impossible, and“fair”—but the authors rely too much on anecdotes...
Sources: Good News--Lancet (2/16/02); University of Michigan. Bad News--Kaiser Family Foundation
...decades ago, companies provided one-size-fits-all health insurance. It had a deductible, co-insurance and an out-of-pocket maximum. But with medical costs skyrocketing, that system became far too costly for employers to maintain. Says Drew Altman, president of the Kaiser Family Foundation, an independent philanthropy that studies health-care issues: "The country made a de facto decision to go with a market-driven health [care] system based on competition and choice." Some folks were most interested in low cost; others wanted to see any doctor, go to any hospital or take any test they felt necessary...
...survey of biracial couples by the Washington Post, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard University, 72% of respondents said their families had accepted their union immediately. Acceptance, however, was lower among black-white couples, two-thirds of whom reported at least one set of parents objecting at first. There are still only 450,000 black-white marriages in the U.S., compared with 700,000 white-Asian and 2 million white-Hispanic...