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6 Oct, 4 tweets, 3 min read
Some of you know I have been pushing an alternative approach to election coverage, the "citizens agenda" model. It is slowly starting to emerge at the local level (the national press is not interested.) Here is @WBEZ in Chicago putting it into practice. wbez.org/stories/wbez-c…
The editor of the @bangordailynews is @DSMacLeod. He writes in to say his newspaper is also taking a "citizens agenda" approach. "Here's our coverage so far..." bangordailynews.com/topic/citizens…
The "citizens agenda" style is different in two ways. 1.) the voters —struggling to get their concerns addressed — are the protagonists; 2.) coverage starts by asking them, "what do you want the candidates to be talking about as they compete for votes?" pressthink.org/2019/06/key-st…
A reporter from @Crosscut in Washington State writes in with an update on their 'citizen agenda' approach to election coverage: @wearehearken

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22 Sep
I may be proven wrong, but I think the debates will be a fact-checking fail. Nothing like a real time check on Trump's firehose of falsehood will unfold. At best we'll see symbolic pushback on one or two lies, and his reaction will introduce more lies. 1/
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23 Aug
Here's an example of local TV (@WNEP, an ABC affiliate in Scranton, PA) getting duped into covering a QAnon event as a "just folks" demonstration against human trafficking. These events happened all over the country today.

wnep.com/video/news/loc…
Another local TV station (@WOODTV in Grand Rapids, MI, an NBC affiliate) duped into covering a QAnon event as "people gather to protest human trafficking." woodtv.com/news/grand-rap…

Maybe check if your local station did the same. Marches like these all over the country today.
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17 Aug
Just published: my NEW post.

"From emergency to active threat: We have again switched settings in our coverage of Donald Trump." pressthink.org/2020/08/from-e… Written in the style of an editor's note explaining a shift in coverage. I hope you will read it— and tell me what you think.
By moving on the Post Office, Trump escalated the crisis in journalism.

"It’s more than a civic emergency; it’s a national crisis. News coverage has to reflect that. We can’t just cover these events in bigger type. We have to take commensurate action." pressthink.org/2020/08/from-e…
Take everything you were going to spend on the conventions and put it toward a threat modeling team. Then reorganize your campaign coverage around their findings.

One of the recommendations in my new post, which is styled as an editor's note to readers. pressthink.org/2020/08/from-e…
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13 Aug
This tweet by @Yamiche demonstrates the "truth sandwich" method of reporting false or dubious claims. First state what is true. Then introduce the truthless or misleading statement. Then repeat what is true, so that the falseood is neither the first impression nor the takeaway.
If you're new to the "truth sandwich" concept, or wondering how it applies in this case, here's my thread from a few months ago that may help.
Speaking clearly and bluntly, NBC's White House correspondent @GeoffRBennett shows NBC's social media team that it needs to learn the "truth sandwich" method for reporting a false or misleading claim. via @BGrueskin
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As a propaganda machine, Sinclair is far more dangerous than OANN. Although it's emerging a little more as itself lately, it is still for the most part a stealth network that operates through local "community" stations that present to the viewer as ABC CBS NBC & Fox affiliates.
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