The Idaho Reporter offers an online defense today of statement by Idaho Sen. Sheryl Nuxoll, R-Cottonwood, comparing the proposed Idaho health exchange to Jews being led off to German concentration camps during the holocaust:

A story in many newspapers this week contained the headline “Idaho state senator compares Holocaust to health exchange.” The story goes on to describe how Sen. Sheryl Nuxoll, R-Cottonwood, said that insurance companies were like “the Jews boarding the trains to concentration camps.” But like a lot of newspaper articles, it lacks the historical context needed to understand what the commentator, in this case, Nuxoll, was saying. Context is important, and is an opportunity for news organizations to educate, rather than inflame. Lacking context, the article is great at the former and not the latter. More from Idaho Reporter staff here.

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