Democracy is at stake in the midterms. The media must convey that.
We journalists have to try harder and find new ways to convey to voters how badly things could turn out
Good article about journalistic responsibility by @Sulliview
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"thanks to a paranoid, delusional and potentially violent new strain in our nation’s politics, Americans may not be able to count on future elections being conducted fairly — or the results of fair elections being accepted."
#DemocracyInDanger
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"most of the Republican Party publicly touts the LIE that Donald Trump won the 2020 election but that the vote was rigged and victory stolen from him.
The Republican elected officials who won’t back Trump are being driven out of office by his faithful."
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"Secretary of state elections across the country may prove even more consequential because those officials oversee elections, control the machinery and vastly influence public opinion with their pronouncements about the integrity of the vote."
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"But do American citizens get it?
Do they fully recognize that our precious democracy may soon fall into history’s sea?"
@Sulliview asks if journalists are doing enough to inform US citizens about GOP efforts to overthrow American democracy.
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"newsroom leaders [need to] take the time to ask themselves and their teams a basic question:
“Does our audience understand what the stakes of this election are?”"
#journalism
#journalists
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News orgs need "to make the threats to democracy a central part of media coverage, not a sidelight; to stop treating campaigns like so many horse races; to have coverage reflect a sharp focus on government rather than politics"
~@Sulliview
#journalism
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"The midterm elections may be the most consequential ones in American history.
They are less than six months away, and many Americans don’t understand how high the stakes really are.
There’s not much time to fix that."
~@Sulliview
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