The popular causes and how the environment affects news choice.
It's absolutely atrocious that a military doctor would be caught on tape saying, "I am under a lot of pressure to not diagnose PTSD," but I want to use this as a moment to talk about how news is "made."
If this story had come out under the Bush administration, this story would have legs. It would amplify off of the Walter Reed stories and be carried and highlighted by the lefty blogs. It would exist because it would echo a public perception of how the Bush administration wasted lives/didn't take care of US troops in relation to his bad decision to go into Iraq.
However, coming now, lacking that Bush "newshook," this story just disappears (and veterans get cheated out of their benefits.)
If this story had come out under the Bush administration, this story would have legs. It would amplify off of the Walter Reed stories and be carried and highlighted by the lefty blogs. It would exist because it would echo a public perception of how the Bush administration wasted lives/didn't take care of US troops in relation to his bad decision to go into Iraq.
However, coming now, lacking that Bush "newshook," this story just disappears (and veterans get cheated out of their benefits.)
posted by mikevotes at
8:03 AM
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That one really got under my skin. I blogged it but I'm not big enough to drive the narrative. So sad, that the soldiers are being ignored.
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Libby Spencer, at 9:29 AM
Yup.
These disability determinations could affect their lives for decades.
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mikevotes, at 10:27 AM
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