This both-sides “clash between Republicans, Democrats” and “partisan disputes” reporting is tragically and dangerously not up to the moment. The substance of the disagreement is not even mentioned, and then obliquely, until paragraph 10. Irresponsible./1 washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020…
How about a lede that says the bill is stalled because the GOP wants to give Mnuchin a $500 billion slush fund for corporations, with no accountability or transparency, while it stints on support for average people? Just as accurate in the details but with intelligible framing./2
The media reflex when the gist of the story is ideological is to talk about process & to revert to “Washington is broken” framing. I think they do this because it seems more “objective” but actually it is less so because it misses the reasons that the “deadlock” exists./3
This lucid thread from @BCAppelbaum gets at the crux of the deadlock: the Dems are trying to block the GOP from enacting a one-sided bailout to corporations at the expense of workers, whom they can summarily fire (and whose unemployment benefits they are also limiting). /4 
“Lawmakers Fight Over Aid,” doesn’t tell us the nature of the fight, @nytimes! Don’t prioritize process over substance. /5
