Why Is the Media still Talking about the Gang of Six? Obama already said "No"

[berni_mccoy]

Obama said they are moving forward without Baucus's plan or committee (see http://journals.democraticunderground.com/berni_mccoy/755 ). So why the hell does the MSM still think they are relevant. They aren't. IMHO Obama needs to focus the media on Harkin's committee.

[Taverner]

1. Because stirring up shit is a good business practice for news media

[hadrons]

2. Because BigPharma is spending BigBucks pushing BigMax's crap ...

and BigMedia wants some of the BigBucks

[BuyingThyme]

3. Because Baucus and the media are owned by the same people.

[SpartanDem]

4. Even if the overall bill sucks we still need parts of it

specially Medicare/Medicaid and the revenue parts HELP doesn't have jurisdiction on those issues.

[iceman66]

5. Because the media,

or more appropriately their corporate masters, would like nothing better than for the Baucus bill to be 'the' reform, so they will push that plan to the exclusion of all others.