"Our top #media organizations can't be bothered to do the serious work of covering #politics, preferring horse races, false balance, and #trivia. If they ever say the just don't have the resources to do things in depth, laugh in their faces. Their budget for # polls is, seemingly, infinite."
- @dangillmor
https://cornerstone.ghost.io/essentials-september-28-29-2024/
#Journalism #Press #News #NotTheOddsButTheStakes #FalseEquivalence #BothSides #US #USNews #UnitedStates #FourthEstate
A compendium of the best reporting and commentary surrounding the pivotal 2024 elections in the United States. You won't find horse race coverage here, or the standard "both sides" BS that passes so often for political journalism. What you will find are links, with brief commentary, to work that I
“Not the odds, but the stakes.
That's my shorthand for the organizing principle we most need among journalists covering the 2024 campaign.
Not who has what chances of winning, but the consequences for Americans and their democracy. What is likely to happen if... Again and again.
Not the odds, but the stakes.”
~@jayrosen_nyu
https://mastodon.social/@jayrosen_nyu/110006646858711303
#NotTheOddsButTheStakes
#Politics #USPol #USPolitics #Election #Elections
#Journalism #Journalists #Press #Media #News #USA
Back to Dahlia Lithwick
"Indeed, it almost seems as if #NotTheOddsButTheStakes no longer captures a #media failure alone; it actually also encapsulates the scope of a bitter #political failure. We may actually have moved into the realm of #journalism adequately covering the stakes, with the sad reality emerging that nobody seems to care much about the stakes at the present moment."
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/11/trump-vermin-speech-democracy-fascism-2024.html
From @jayrosen_nyu
“Not the odds, but the stakes.
That's my shorthand for the organizing principle we most need among journalists covering the 2024 campaign.
Not who has what chances of winning, but the consequences for Americans and their democracy. What is likely to happen if... Again and again.
Not the odds, but the stakes.”
https://mastodon.social/@jayrosen_nyu/110006646858711303
#NotTheOddsButTheStakes
#Politics #USPol #USPolitics #Election #Elections
#Journalism #Journalists #Press #Media #News #USA
“Not the odds, but the stakes.
That's my shorthand for the organizing principle we most need among journalists covering the 2024 campaign.
Not who has what chances of winning, but the consequences for Americans and their democracy. What is likely to happen if... Again and again.
Not the odds, but the stakes.”
~@jayrosen_nyu
https://mastodon.social/@jayrosen_nyu/110006646858711303
#NotTheOddsButTheStakes
#Quote #Politics #USPol #USPolitics #Elections
#Journalism #Journalists #Press #Media #News #USA
“Not the odds, but the stakes.
That's my shorthand for the organizing principle we most need among journalists covering the 2024 campaign.
Not who has what chances of winning, but the consequences for Americans and their democracy. What is likely to happen if... Again and again.
Not the odds, but the stakes.”
~@jayrosen_nyu
https://mastodon.social/@jayrosen_nyu/110006646858711303
#NotTheOddsButTheStakes
#Politics #USPol #USPolitics #Election #Elections
#Journalism #Journalists #Press #Media #News #USA
“Not the odds, but the stakes.
That's my shorthand for the organizing principle we most need among journalists covering the 2024 campaign.
Not who has what chances of winning, but the consequences for Americans and their democracy. What is likely to happen if... Again and again.
Not the odds, but the stakes.”
~@jayrosen_nyu
https://mastodon.social/@jayrosen_nyu/110006646858711303
#NotTheOddsButTheStakes
#Politics #USPol #USPolitics #Election #Elections
#Journalism #Journalists #Press #Media #News #USA
Ian Bassin 🇺🇦 @ianbassin @ianbassin
A man who helped lead a plot to overthrow the results of an American election is poised to become Speaker of the House and second in line to the presidency.
This should lead every news outlet’s coverage. Not the odds, but the stakes.
#NotTheOddsButTheStakes
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
it's B! Cavello 🐝
Sue Cohen
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