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May 16 • 8 tweets • 6 min read
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

washingtonpost.com/media/2022/05/…
"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.

washingtonpost.com/media/2022/05/…
"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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A new report shows just how extensively the two groups have intertwined."

#GOPDomesticTerrorists
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... not only as the BASIS FOR ACTS OF VIOLENCE [emphasis mine] but as the basis for [GOP] public policy.”

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"And as the scale of what happened comes into sharper focus, the disaster appears to be breaking through the Kremlin’s tightly controlled information bubble."

#Russia
#Ukraine

nytimes.com/2022/05/15/wor…
"Russian battlefield failure is resonating w/ a stable of pro-Russian war bloggers...

“The commentary by these widely read milbloggers may fuel burgeoning doubts in Russia about Russia’s prospects in this war & the competence of Russia’s military leaders”
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What Trump Is Hiding

Seven hours and 37 minutes of missing phone records on January 6 suggest consciousness of guilt.
~@davidfrum

#Jan6
#Jan6thCommitee
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
"Journalists often quote his incendiary language from the speech: “Fight like hell”; “We will not take it anymore.” But Trump also laid out a precise plan of action for the crowd:"

#Jan6
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
"Trump promised the crowd that if they did as he urged—if they marched on Congress, if they showed strength—they could force a change of the election result."

#Jan6
#Jan6thCommitee
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Apr 1
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
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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
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…
"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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Mar 31
"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
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“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
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