If you see this stuff in your social feeds, this is where it's coming from. Spread the word. #USPol #elections2024 #immigration Cleta Mitchell has been busy

Note on the #USPol #debate media narrative that #Trump's responses came from being "baited" by #Harris — he has been saying these things, unbaited, in his rallies and speeches all along and increasingly incoherently through '24

It's great to listen to voters and an even better use of #NewYorkTimes resources would be to evaluate the records and plans of the major parties and their candidates to see which have and will benefit voters in, for instance, rural areas such as Wilson County, #NC -- ie tax cut, infrastructure act, ag policy, etc. Listen to concerns and then do #Journalism that addresses those concerns. Instead, it's just more handicapping #USPol https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/08/23/us/elections/north-carolina-rural-voters.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FU4.cAal.vzLgbT7Z5MGN&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

I'm currently posting occasionally on journalism on LinkedIn and FB, inspired by questions from non-#journalism friends about news. In case you're interested, here's the latest: What's election journalism for? To predict the winner, or help voters choose? https://www.linkedin.com/posts/melaniesill_whats-election-journalism-for-to-tell-activity-7225587660944293889-xjMa?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios With the #NewYorkTimes as exhibit A, what we all lose when coverage's focus moves from the horse race to the betting odds. #USPol

If you think the #USPol press failed the public in 2016, here's how: https://shorensteincenter.org/news-coverage-2016-general-election/ Deep analysis, multipart report. Nutshell: obsession with controversy, scandal and the horse race; lack of policy and issues coverage to show differences in candidates; negative bias of coverage, more pronounced for Clinton than Trump. There have been no lessons learned by our biggest and most heavily resourced outlets. #journalism

Imagine a #trump press conference where #journalists asked about his agenda re: #Gaza, #climatechange, other things besides the political hot buttons. Who does our #USPol press represent?

Amazing how often @ProPublica scoops the multi-times-bigger #NewYorkTimes on critical #USPol news stories, kudos to #journalism focus on public interest
https://newsie.social/@ProPublica/112937158095402480

@WarnerCrocker I heard the interviewers push back, several times.

@WarnerCrocker Not sure what you are envisioning. Example of live fact checking of live interview?

@WarnerCrocker If you're talking about NABJ, there was fact checking, by PolitiFact

@dangillmor What mainstream Washington press outlets don't report on: Trump's weird speeches, fumbles, made-up anecdotes. “Mothers will never again be forced to watch their children overdosing in hosp… and we will never allow mothers to watch their child hopelessly dying in their arms screaming, ‘What can I do, what can I do? Help me God, what can I do?’ We are a nation whose once revered airports are a dirty, crowded mess,” Trump continued, pivoting suddenly. (this from the New Republic)

If you have any doubt about how invested #NewYorkTimes reporters are in #biden's exit and in proving he's "faltering," read the comments on the Times live updates. It's like Mystery Science Theater but not funny. #NATO #Biden #journalism #journalists

The current #NATO (or, "why don't you get out, #Biden?) press conference is Washington pack #journalism at its worst. Every question is the same question. (The question is legitimate, but why does every reporter have to ask it?) Ordinary people watching see a bunch of well-dressed people hounding the president, not exhibiting any interest in the NATO conference. It's the "gotcha" approach that gives #journalists such low esteeim.

This analysis from Media Matters was published pre-debate, and we'd guess the numbers skew even more now: Much more attention to Biden's cognitive issues than Trump's despite closeness in age and many examples of Trump saying things publicly that indicate problems of cognition and memory. https://www.mediamatters.org/washington-post/top-newspapers-fixate-bidens-age Again, #Biden's candidacy is a big story, so is #Trump's

Veteran newsman James O'Shea on the history of newspaper crusading and what the #NewYorkTimes is doing now with its all-out blitz on Joe #Biden's future, with some great perspective on the #journalism questions I, Dan Gillmor and others have been raising about this crusade.https://jeoshea.com/blog/the-news-crusaders #USPol

Any responsible #journalist should be troubled by the latest in the #NewYorkTimes' crusade to get #Biden to step down: This headline and story are full of innuendo and suggestion versus reporting that backs up the implication. They're part of a damaging, ongoing campaign of attack #journalism . The Times' leadership needs to account for its decisions and others in #journalism need to debate ethics and substance and hold the paper accountable
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/08/us/politics/parkinsons-expert-white-house.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

Apparently the #NewYorkTimes only has enough reporters to cover one US Presidential candidate, at least in the last 8 days. The paper's crusade to oust #Biden continues. The president's mental and physical fitness are legit issues for coverage, lots of it; so is the debate over his candidacy. But there is another guy running whose debate performance and daily actions are being ignored. There's a lot at stake in both candidacies. You can do both, NYT.

A presidential candidate can use nearly every question in a televised #debate to respond by demonizing immigrants, providing false numbers and fear-mongering anecdotes, and not merit a #USPol major media post-debate story about this approach and its impact. The #NewYorkTimes is failing the public on its election coverage. (Today's headline on #Trump reports that he is "gleeful") "But his age" will be the "but her emails" of 2024, as the Times fixates on this and fails to report on Trump.

Many of us can't believe how fundamentally flawed, just by basic #journalism values, the New York TImes' political coverage is. It is not just bad, but damaging. In this case, an entire article, top to bottom, gives platform and voice to radical right-wing threats without -- at any point -- identifying the constitutional and democratic principles and precedents that these actions violate (i.e., orderly succession, not using office to punish political enemies) #USPol https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/05/us/politics/trump-conviction-gop-revenge.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xU0._OLW.auSRk6Fo94pV&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

@dankennedy_nu @dangillmor I know that journalists continue to talk to each other there, and to other political communities and sources. It's raised all kinds of questions and recognition for me about where many journalists connect and with whom. (Twitter has never been where local news, for instance, finds much audience - vs. other platforms, especially Facebook and Instagram) But I'm also disappointed by the acceptance of Musk's terms.