The American press is failing to adequately emphasize the stakes of the coming election

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    110 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Last week, as she celebrated her 40 years at CNN, she issued a challenge to her fellow journalists in the US by describing how she would cover US politics as a foreign correspondent.

    Add to this the obsession with the “horse race” aspect of the campaign, and the profit-driven desire to increase the potential news audience to include Trump voters, and you’ve got the kind of problematic coverage discussed above.

    The Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman pointed out last week that the media apparently has failed to communicate something that should be a huge asset for Biden: the US’s current “Goldilocks economy”.

    Two-thirds of Americans are unhappy about the economy despite reports that inflation is easing and unemployment is close to a 50-year low, according to a new Harris poll for the Guardian.

    “When one of our two political parties has become so extremist and anti-democratic”, the old ways of reporting don’t cut it, wrote the journalist Dan Froomkin in his excellent list of suggestions culled from respected historians and observers.

    It’s our job to make sure that those potential consequences – not the horse race, not Biden’s age, not a scam impeachment – are front and center for US citizens before they go to the polls.


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  • krolden
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    -110 months ago

    I like how ‘both sides’ seem to claim to love the constitution so much but continue shitting all over any meaning it once had.

    • @[email protected]
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      310 months ago

      Would you please describe the ways in which both sides have what on the Constitution? I must be misunderstanding

      • krolden
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        010 months ago

        I could go on and on but all I have to say is the patriot act.