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Author: distorting its article
Intro: Philip Morris budgeted $25,000 for McCaughey employer Manhattan Institute in 1995. As Media Matters Senior Fellow Jamison Foser documented, Philip Morris budgeted $25,000 for The Manhattan Institute for 1995 -- the think tank that employed McCaughey when she authored her hit piece in 1994.
Neither The New Republic nor McCaughey disclosed her reported conflict of interest
TNR presented McCaughey as an impartial expert.
In McCaughey's February 7, 1994 article, "No Exit," and February 28, 1994, article, "She's BAAACK!," The New Republic only identified her as the "John M. Olin Fellow at the Manhattan Institute" (articles retrieved from the Nexis database). . . .
McCaughey's Clinton-era claims have been widely debunked -- repeatedly so in TNR
Media cite bill Section 1003 explicitly providing "protection of consumer choice." Rebutting McCaughey's claims, many media accounts have cited Section 1003, which, contrary to McCaughey's claims, makes clear that individuals can "go outside the system to buy basic health coverage" and that individuals can pay doctors out-of-pocket. This section is often referenced as "page 15" or "page 16" of the bill, the pages on which it appears. . . .
Weinstein points to George Will to explain how McCaughey's "misrepresentations ... spread quickly." In his February 6, 1994, New York Times opinion piece, Weinstein wrote that "Conservatives, ranging from Senator Bob Dole to the columnist George Will, have embraced her broadside as gospel." He added that "[h]er misrepresentations have spread quickly . . .
Despite her past conflicts of interest and falsehoods, media treat McCaughey as if she's credible
McCaughey is a serial misinformer who has perpetuated numerous falsehoods about health care reform. . . .
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