Obama denounces spotlight on healthcare protests

US President Barack Obama today denounced what he suggested was news media overemphasis on scenes of angry protesters at town-hall meetings on health care, saying: “TV loves a ruckus”.

Trying to sell his overhaul plan amid an increasingly noisy partisan debate, Mr Obama told a town hall-style meeting in an airport hangar in Belgrade, Montana: “What you haven’t seen on TV and what makes me proud are the many constructive meetings going on all over the country.”