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Mar 31 • 17 tweets • 13 min read
"They [journalists] are supposed to invoke neither fear nor favor. How do they navigate the sticky wicket of a two-party system in which only one party seems to value the truth?"

#journalism
newsletters.theatlantic.com/wait-what/6244…
"this coming election will include many state-level positions, and that many of those candidates are running on the Big Lie.
...
Hard to treat a person as a normal candidate when one of his main positions is undermining democracy."

#journalism
newsletters.theatlantic.com/wait-what/6244…
“The mainstream press (the reality-based press, to distinguish them from the right-wing press) should focus on what's good for citizens and not the horse race aspect of the midterms, and they should call out lies clearly.”
~@Sulliview

#journalism
newsletters.theatlantic.com/wait-what/6244…
Truth Sandwich:

Always LEAD WITH THE TRUTH, not the lies.

Do **NOT** put GOP lies FIRST in your tweets, headlines, and/or articles.

Giving lies primacy, gives them validity.

Give the truth primacy, not the lies.

#LeadWithTheTruth
#LedeWithTheTruth (<for the journalists)
"Mainstream media should cover the midterms ... by avoiding treating the two parties as equal and opposite ‘sides’ when they aren’t, especially when it comes to the preservation of U.S. democracy."
~@Jon_Allsop

#journalism
newsletters.theatlantic.com/wait-what/6244…
"start with a more urgent contest:
those from both parties who still abide by the norms of American democracy
vs.
those who have demonstrated they do not..."
~@jayrosen_nyu

#journalism
newsletters.theatlantic.com/wait-what/6244…
"The idea that media should have a prodemocracy bias is a good one.

It would help us focus on politicians straying from democratic norms, and highlight antidemocratic plays like disenfranchising voters."
~@MollyJongFast

#journalism
newsletters.theatlantic.com/wait-what/6244…
"we have to avoid treating this [deception] as ‘clever positioning,’

... that helps Republicans get away with continuing to undermine democracy, rather than calling out their strategy for the antidemocratic bad acting that it really is.”
~@ThePlumLineGS

newsletters.theatlantic.com/wait-what/6244…
"traditional media has neither the ability nor the willingness to serve as a bulwark against right-wing authoritarianism...

...should push the media to stop normalizing dangerously abnormal behavior and prioritizing balance over accuracy."
~@danpfeiffer

newsletters.theatlantic.com/wait-what/6244…
GOP sees mid-terms "as an opportunity not merely to install Republicans in govt, but to install pro-Trump, antidemocratic functionaries in govt...

media must not cover these midterms as business as usual, because “business as usual” could end democracy."
newsletters.theatlantic.com/wait-what/6244…
[see also...

"Authoritarianism and subverting elections aren’t theoretical ideas. They’ve become strategies for Republicans.

And it’s time for the media to unequivocally and unapologetically condemn both."
~@brianklaas

#journalism
“We in the media MUST do more to stand up for democracy against authoritarianism.

Not taking a side is taking a side.”
~@JoyAnnReid

“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor”
~Elie Wiesel


#journalism
"the both-sides dynamic remains — big time. The US doesn’t have some generic problem called “voting” or “democracy” — the problem is, specifically, that many key figures in the Republican Party are acting to erode democracy & voting rights"
~@perrybaconjr

"The media today ... Had they been covering John Lewis on the bridge, one shudders to think that they might have “scored” that day as a win for the Alabama troopers who met the marchers with clubs and tear gas."
~@JRubinBlogger

"Too many journalists are caught in a mindless neutrality between democracy and its saboteurs, between fact and fiction.

It’s time to take a stand."
~@Milbank

#journalism
"Mainstream journalists want their work to be perceived as fair-minded and nonpartisan. They want to defend themselves against charges of bias.

So they equalize the unequal."
~@Sulliview
washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/medi…

#journalism
Journalist Jennifer Rubin @JRubinBlogger has some suggestions for how to avoid “false balance syndrome” when covering politics.
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…

If you can’t access the article, here’s a thread of her suggestions:

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Seven hours and 37 minutes of missing phone records on January 6 suggest consciousness of guilt.
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Jan. 6 White House logs given to House show 7-hour gap in Trump calls

The House select committee is investigating whether it has the full record and whether Trump communicated that day through backchannels, phones of aides or personal disposable phones

washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/…
"Internal White House records from the day of the attack on the US Capitol... show a gap in Trump’s phone logs of seven hours and 37 minutes, including the period when the building was being violently assaulted"

#Jan6th
#Jan6thCommitee
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"The seven-hour gap also stands in stark contrast to the extensive public reporting about phone conversations he [Trump] had with allies during the attack..."

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"To the dismay of many Democrats, Biden remains wedded to the futile goals of “bipartisanship” and “lowering the temperature.” Frustrated Democrats make the point that there can be no real bipartisanship with a party that plays to QAnon ..."

#VoteBlue
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"By remaining so studiously above the fray and refusing to identify Republicans as the threat to our democracy, he has sapped his own base of energy and allowed Republicans free rein to light up their voters."
~@JRubinBlogger

#POTUS
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"Biden and the rest of the party must paint an accurate picture of what a Republican-led Congress would look like. Chaos. Vicious partisanship. Gridlock."

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“I hate this whole thing, and I am very afraid. They told us that if we don’t go it’s going to be very strict this time. No explanations will be accepted. We would be fired right away.

I have no way out.”

#Russia
#PutinsWar
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"“I know that people are being killed and it’s awful. And how dare they organize a concert when people are dying?”

She said she was also “forced to participate in elections” and to vote for Putin’s United Russia party or lose her job."

#Russia
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"“They stuck me on a bus & brought me here,” another woman told SOTA Vision, an independent media outlet. Two photographers from the outlet were arrested trying to cover the rally, and a journalist & another photographer from the outlet were detained."

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"The morgue in Kharkiv was overflowing.

In the courtyard outside, scores of black & green body bags were stacked along 2 of its walls. On the other side, dozens more victims of Russia’s assault on this eastern city lay exposed to the elements."

#Ukraine
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“We need body bags,” morgue director Yuriy Nikolaevich explained.

Or at least plastic wrap, he said.

There was nothing left to use to hand the dead back to their families: “There are no coffins left in the city.”

#PutinsWarCrimes
#UkraineRussiaWar
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"Russian forces have rained down a daily shower of artillery fire, missiles and rockets, which appear to strike at random in civilian neighborhoods...

evidence of cluster bombs being used in the area around the main market in the city center."

#Ukraine
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Mar 17
“All American companies must leave Russia. … Leave their market immediately, because it is flooded with our blood … Peace is more important than income.”
~Volodymyr Zelensky, president of Ukraine

#RussiaUkraineWar
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"Those who want to stop Russia’s murderous attack against Ukraine should stop investing in or buying the products of these companies.

Koch Industries, whose owners gave to right-wing causes for years, is now financing Putin’s war."

#RussiaUkraineWar
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"Are you or your mutual fund invested in Halliburton, Baker Hughes or Schlumberger?

Then you should know that these oil-services companies could deal a huge blow to Putin’s ability to wage war — but they choose profit instead"

#Russia #UkraineRussiaWar
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