Bill shielding press from feds could reach Biden’s desk this year, Schumer says
https://nypost.com/2024/03/07/us-news/bill-shielding-press-from-feds-could-reach-bidens-desk-this-year-schumer-says/
#SenSchumer: It has been six months: how's it going?
Bill shielding press from feds could reach Biden’s desk this year, Schumer says
https://nypost.com/2024/03/07/us-news/bill-shielding-press-from-feds-could-reach-bidens-desk-this-year-schumer-says/
#SenSchumer: It has been six months: how's it going?
Good story from the Haitian Times:
Haitians in Springfield: A tale of Black immigration in ‘Anytown USA’
https://haitiantimes.com/2024/09/17/haitian-media-narratives-tech-4/
Submitted to #USDemocracyDay2024
The Media and Democracy Project is hosting former PM Malcolm Turnbull to discuss “Rupert Murdoch’s Global War on Democracy and Climate”
Wed. 10/6 at 8pm ET (US)
Sign up here: https://www.mobilize.us/mediademocracyproject/event/695135/
JOURNALISTS MAKE CHOICES!
Another great column on the subject by Margaret Sullivan
"The mainstream media is still getting it wrong about Trump"
"An ugly case of 'false balance' in the New York Times"
https://margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/an-ugly-case-of-false-balance-in
JOURNALISTS MAKE CHOICES!
It’s time for newsrooms to cover elections like they matter more than sports scores. With 18 recommendations ranging from substantive issues coverage to reporting on threats to our system, our new pro-democracy guidelines are a much-needed newsroom reset.
https://www.mediaanddemocracyproject.org/2024-election-coverage
Election lies have dangerous consequences. That’s why, along with 3,000+ individuals, we’re asking newsrooms for a reset - drop the horse race coverage and prioritize substantive coverage of the issues.
Read our full release: tiny.cc/prodemocracy2024
🧵Journalists Make Choices:
We have put together recommendations for how we think the #Press should be covering the election.
Part 1: Make Threats to Democracy Clear!
Full Guidelines here:
https://www.mediaanddemocracyproject.org/2024-election-coverage
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Our 18 guidelines encourage newsrooms to center fact-based reporting that shifts the focus from polls and drama to candidates’ policies, past governance, behavior and capability.
The guidelines fall under three categories:
1) Treat elections like they matter more than sports scores
2) Make threats to democracy clear
3) Protect Americans from disinformation
Voters need substantive coverage of the issues, not dumb coverage of who's up and who's down.
2/6
📣We’re urging newsrooms to improve their election coverage!
Today, the Media and Democracy Project, along with 3,258 individuals, sent an open letter to executives, publishers, and union leaders of major media orgs urging them to adopt our pro-democracy election coverage guidelines.
Americans need press coverage that portrays the stakes of this election.
Read our open letter, see our guidelines and who's signed, and add your name here:
https://www.mediaanddemocracyproject.org/2024-election-coverage
#Media #Democracy
1/6
At the ballot box, voters deserve the opportunity to make their choices with crystal clear information about the threats to their rights and freedoms posed by anti-democracy candidates.
https://www.mediaanddemocracyproject.org/2024-election-coverage
3/6
As professionals dedicated to appraising facts and reporting truth, journalists have a duty to protect the American voter from disinformation.
https://www.mediaanddemocracyproject.org/2024-election-coverage
4/6
We are thrilled that experienced journalist and wise media observer Margaret Sullivan said our guidelines for better press coverage of the election are "thoughtful" and "urgently needed"
Read what she said in full here:
https://open.substack.com/pub/margaretsullivan/p/heres-an-urgently-needed-pre-election
Read the guidelines here:
https://www.mediaanddemocracyproject.org/2024-election-coverage
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The rights and freedoms that Americans cherish are at risk. It’s more important than ever for news executives and journalists to step up and put the public before profit, democracy before tyranny, and truth before lies. 5/5
More here:
https://www.mediaanddemocracyproject.org/2024-election-coverage
5/6
Our 18 guidelines encourage newsrooms to center fact-based reporting that shifts the focus from polls and drama to candidates’ policies, past governance, behavior and capability.
The guidelines fall under three categories:
1) Treat elections like they matter more than sports scores
2) Make threats to democracy clear
3) Protect Americans from disinformation
Voters need substantive coverage of the issues, not dumb coverage of who's up and who's down.
2/5
📣We’re urging newsrooms to improve their election coverage!
Today, the Media and Democracy Project, along with 3,258 individuals, sent an open letter to executives, publishers, and union leaders of major media orgs urging them to adopt our pro-democracy election coverage guidelines.
Americans need press coverage that portrays the stakes of this election.
Read our open letter, see our guidelines and who's signed, and add your name here:
https://www.mediaanddemocracyproject.org/2024-election-coverage
#Media #Democracy
1/5
Since we don't have public editors to call out the press, we have cartoonists.
Manufacturing Backlash:
Right-Wing Think Tanks and Legislative Attacks on Higher Education, 2021–2023
https://www.aaup.org/article/manufacturing-backlash
Thomas Zimmer has pointed out that "organized counter-mobilization" is usually more accurate than "backlash" which sounds like a natural phenomenon.
The PRESS Act would ensure a free and fair media https://coloradonewsline.com/2024/06/07/press-act-ensure-free-fair-media/
by our member Denise Fazio in Colorado Newsline
Please contact your senators to urge passage (easy link here):
https://go.peoplepower.org/letter/congress-press-act
We're doing something about Fox's 2020 election lies. Support our effort.
We have petitioned the FCC to deny FOX Corp broadcast television licenses on the grounds that they fail the character tests required for public broadcast.
Sign onto letter in support.
https://foxpetition.com/
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What do our Pro-Democracy Election Coverage Guidelines ask of newsrooms?
1) Cover elections like they matter more than sports scores.
2) Make threats to democracy clear.
3) Protect Americans from disinformation.
Sign our open letter to news execs here:
https://www.mediaanddemocracyproject.org/2024-election-coverage
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