Thread by @FixMediaNow

🧵Let's examine the immorality of covering elections like a sport. @nytimes The Daily spent 25 minutes on "The Personal and Political Saga of Herschel Walker". The issues were not covered. The threat of MAGA fascism wasn't mentioned. Republicans were treated normally.
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"So after the 2020 presidential election and the 2021 Senate runoffs, Republicans had to do some soul searching, some recalibrating." Maya King mentions DJT's #BigLie but leaves out that the majority of Republicans in Congress also participated in the attempted coup.

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Then she and @mikiebarb have this exchange after we learn Walker put a gun to his ex's temple-

Barbaro: Wow. That’s pretty extraordinary.

King: It is, and it’s something that might otherwise disqualify a candidate with far less star power...than Herschel Walker.

Drama!

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.@mikiebarb asks why Warnock isn't playing the game like he's supposed to?

Barbaro: What I’m not hearing you say, Maya, is that Warnock addresses Herschel Walker’s personal life, these extraordinary, in some cases, violent stories that are right there for the taking.

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There's very little of substance in the whole report. The most remarkable thing is how a listener comes away from it speculating about Walker's chances, mostly distracted from his repeated lying, violence, and hypocrisy by the spectacle of his 'personal and political saga."

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It's a wildly dangerous approach to covering people completely unfit for office. Here's a pretty insane clickbait headline from @NBCNews and @MarcACaputo that has nothing to do with information voters need to make one of the most consequential decisions of the midterms.

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Pro-democracy journalists inform voters by providing substantive coverage of the issues and warning against threats of fascism. Non-journalists treat life and death issues like a sports game.

Help us urgently push for pro-democracy coverage.
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mediaanddemocracyproject.org/prodemocracyco…

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