There’s too much sound and not enough light in the reportage of the town hall meetings on health care. Our ratings-driven media are focusing on action—screaming, yelling, shouting, waving signs—and failing to offset all that sound and fury by reporting the facts and correcting false information. As a result, the public is poorly served, and we’re seeing our elected leaders get torn apart, metaphorically speaking, by ill-informed people. (more…)