We’ve noted that a Aug. 19 CNSNews.com article by Christopher Neefus failed to point out the Lewin Group’s links to a private insurer, throwing doubt on the article’s claim that the organization is “independent.” But there’s something else worth noting about the article as well.
The article was ostensibly about a “liberal Yale scholar” claiming that “he does not see the public option as a ‘Trojan Horse’ that could lead the United States to single-payer, government-run health insurance.” Neefus permitted a representative of an anti-reform group to rebut the claim.
Meanwhile, another Aug. 19 CNS article by Penny Starr promoted the idea that sentencing teenagers to life without parole is not “cruel and unusual punishment.” By contrast to Neefus, Starr at no point quotes anyone who objects to that idea.