Romenesko

Diamondback
Gene Roberts is asked if there any beats the mainstream press is missing today. "One of those is the medical crisis in the country," says the former Philadelphia Inquirer executive editor. "People write about it, but I don't see the kind of sustained week-in, week-out coverage that the situation calls for. You read now and then about the crisis in the emergency rooms and how many Americans are uninsured, but it isn't really set up as a beat, so you have different reporters switching in and out of a story and you don't get the expertise and the continuing coverage that would have if more reporters covered it as a beat."