this year alone. of course, when costs go up, insurers get out. a few weeks ago, anthem announced it was pulling out of ohio. the ohio department of insurance says that means that next year, 20% of the counties in the buckeye state will have zero insurers selling individual plans. but as an op-ed deadly hill pointed out, quoting cbs evening news, nbc nightly news, and abc world news tonight, we are left with the impression that obamacare was a popular law that was humming along. here is a sample of network coverage then and now. watch. the health care debacle is especially devastating, given with the president said during the campaign. first major piece of legislation went down in flames. a critical milestone was reached overnight in the government s bid to overhaul the nation s health care system. today, the president had many of his fellow democrats are celebrating last night s passage of the house covered by the house, they health care reform
i wrote that there were a bunch of high-functioning alcoholics surrounding the president, all of which was based on the details that other news organizations, a number of them have reported. we should say, mark not just washington post but cnn and other outlets repeated this stuff and it led abc world news tonight on the day it came out. i agree. i think that s what happens. that s the way our modern age we should not accept that. it happens. we ve got to find a better way. we have to find a way, particularly when individuals are maligned unfairly to redress that. that s to me the biggest issue. the secret service can really speak for itself. i think in general we want aggressive reporting, including reporting that makes mistakes rather than having a timid press corps and timid reporters but there has to be some middle ground. there has to be make way for us
he s not a household name. do you know him? i do not know him. i know his work, not closely. frankly, i don t know a lot about him and i don t know a lot about his work, however, to ascend to being the anchor and managing editor of the world news tonight he must have been doing a lot right for a long while. you can say he s only 40 years old, but what young mr. muir has inherited is an honor and a great opportunity but in the great scheme of tv news is the diminished medallion. the medallion goes to the morning news which is george stephanopoulos. when you and your generation of anchors became anchors, peter jennings had been in london, you covered the white house, tom brokaw covered the white house and had been the anchor of the today show. you were at 60 minutes. there was a tradition, a
in depth specials of the stories that matter to all of our lives. i m going to be telling you more about this in the weeks ahead, but i love every night i get to spend with you. so why isn t her job going to george stephanopoulos who is arguably the network s lead anchorman. he is the anchor of good morning america. abc says he will assume a new role of something called chief anchor handling big breaking news and election coverage. anyway you handle it, the evening news isn t the priority it was. that s a dramatic change. i can t think of anyone better to ask about this than one of the legends of the evening news, dan rather who was the anchor of cbs evening news. he joins me now. dan, thank you for being here. thank you very much, jeffrey. thanks for being here. david muir is the new anchor of the abc world news tonight.
tv. would you spend $14 million to shove a bunch of unused equipment in a closet in west virginia? well, you did. it gets worse. news political director rick klein joins us. this broke on abc world news tonight. we couldn t help having to do it too. part of the stimulus plan was $7 billion in high-speed internet access going to rural areas. a big chunk went to west virginia. the state auditor stepped in and found an incredible amount of waste including one closet that had more than a million dollars worth of high-speed internet routers that had too much capacity for the intended use for. it s been three years and they re still sitting there with the wrappers on. why aren t they being used? they can t be used? there s too many of them. they bought too many of them. where they have been used, we re talking about tiny libraries, some with one computer terminal.