Hand me the back of the envelope, please

I listen to NPR News every day, and I am much better informed for it. But often I wish they would do a little more real reporting. Such as asking pointed follow-up questions, and trying to figure out the actual magnitudes of things without relying on he-said, she-said. Dean Baker offers a great example of how to do it, reacting to a particularly egregious report on the implications of the ACA decision.