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The media coverage spawned by the health-care overhaul has taken many forms, but one of the most popular vehicles — according to our less-than-scientific observation — has been that venerable journalism standby, the Q&A. <\/p>\nThe media coverage spawned by the health-care overhaul has taken many forms, but one of the most popular vehicles — according to our less-than-scientific observation — has been that venerable journalism standby, the Q&A. <\/p>\n
Editors love the question-and-answer format for offering up lots of factoids about complex data in bite-size chunks. Deliver it in a conversational, reader-friendly tone and you’ve got a winner, the thinking goes. <\/p>\n
So in case you share a hankering for Q&A’s, here a sampling from the many we’ve seen lately on newspaper and other journalism sites. We’ve included the first question in each Q&A to provide a flavor of the topics covered:<\/p>\n
LA Times<\/a><\/strong>: Why require everyone to buy insurance? Also<\/a>: Would insurance companies still be able to offer abortion coverage?<\/p>\n Kaiser Health News<\/a><\/strong>: What are the biggest disputes [between the House and Senate over their approved bills]?<\/p>\n USA Today<\/strong><\/a>: What aspects of the health care legislation would be implemented right away? <\/p>\n Reuters<\/strong><\/a>: What does the Senate healthcare bill do?<\/p>\n WSJ<\/a>:<\/strong> Would the law force me to buy health insurance?<\/p>\n BBC<\/a><\/strong>: How is the US healthcare system currently structured?<\/p>\n Image: iStockphoto<\/em><\/p>\n The media coverage spawned by the health-care overhaul has taken many forms, but one of the most popular vehicles — according to our less-than-scientific observation — has been that venerable journalism standby, the Q&A. Editors love the question-and-answer format for offering up lots of factoids about complex data in bite-size chunks. Deliver it in a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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