Brad Wilmouth:
On Monday’s All In show on MSNBC, during a discussion of what stories were over-covered or under-covered by the media in 2013, CBS contributor Nancy Giles griped that the HealthCare.Gov glitches were over-covered, and seemed to suggest that hackers may have been to blame for ObamaCare’s rollout problems. Giles began:
I thought the Healthcare.gov Web site glitches, I thought they were kind of covered without context, like, there was no mention of whether they could have been hacked. I saw all these different Web sites, you know, KillObamaCare.Gov, you know, all kinds of problems that could have happened that way, site tampering, and there were a lot of people that signed up by phone and got on successfully. So I felt like the fixture on the Web site problems were a little too much.
She went on to complain that the story of a white man in Florida who shot and killed several unarmed black teens who has tried to use the Stand Your Ground Law as a defense should have received more attention, even though the man is still being prosecuted and there is no sign so far that he will be able to successfully used the defense-oriented law.
