How the Press Is Doing the GOP's Ebola Bidding
Category: MEDIA
If the news media's job is to educate, and especially to clarify during times of steep public concerns, then the news media have utterly failed during the Ebola threat. And politically, that translates into a win for Republicans because it means there's fertile ground for their paranoia to grow.
By Eric Boehlert, ContributorSenior Fellow, Media Matters for America, 2014-10-17