Gazette today (4/10) - did anyone else notice the front page story

[rurallib]

praising the Medicare drug plan? What a pile of Bushco propaganda! I didn't have time to call them on it today, but will tomorrow.
And then later on I saw the exact same story in the Muscy Journal. No byline. It was probably in papers across the country or at least Iowa.
We need to complain about this shoddy crap. How can anyone believe what is in a newspaper when they pass crap like this as news.
I can't find an online version of the story, but the headline is something like "Seniors like new Medicare Drug Plan"

[CornField]

1. They picked it up from the AP wire service

Here's a link to it:
http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2006/04/10/news/news08041006.txt

...Congressional supporters of the program worry that the problems that marked its beginnings have drowned out success stories such as Dike's.

Dike said the enrollment process was horrendous. Her friends had the same problem.

...

She enrolled with the help of the local senior center and now spends between $2 and $5 for each prescription. She takes medicine for high blood pressure, arthritis, an ulcer and her thyroid, and she uses a potassium supplement. By year's end, she estimates she will have saved about $1,000.

Her story fits the profile that Republican lawmakers and some advocacy groups have stressed in recent weeks...

It seems to be a very slanted article; however, it isn't necessarily the Gazette's fault. (It was probably picked up more in Iowa because there is a brief reference to Sen. Grassley -- seems he got one call from someone who liked the plan. LOL!)