Reading Amy Goldstein’s breathless puff piece on Donald Berwickmay remind people of something Mark Twain said in a speech he called 'License of the Press.' Twain observed: "If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed."
 

The intellectual vacuum created by Goldstein’s complete lack of hard reporting is more than filled by her Oprahesque portrayal of Berwick as a unappreciated and misunderstood public servant seeking nothing but the best for every patient. Goldstein describes Berwick and the reason for the rejection of his re-appointment as a morality tale:  "A pioneer in improving medical quality, but a neophyte in Washington politics, Berwick ran into a buzzsaw of Republican opposition over old academic writings when President Obama chose him for the task 16 months ago."