A simple way to describe the kind of 2024 coverage we need is this...

Not the odds, but the stakes.

Meaning: less that tries to handicap the race, more that shows what is at stake in that race.

One in the first category: "DeSantis’s Challenge: When, and How, to Counterattack Trump." All about tactics.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/12/us/politics/desantis-trump-2024-president.html

In the second category: "DeSantis is weaponizing partisan media." The stakes, not the odds.

https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/02/ron-desantis-is-weaponizing-partisan-media-and-weakening-independent-sources-of-news/

#uspol #uspolitics #journalism #2024election

DeSantis’s Challenge: When, and How, to Counterattack Trump

As the former president lobs insults and calls him “Ron DeSanctimonious,” Gov. Ron DeSantis is carefully avoiding conflict. But if he runs for president as expected, a clash is inevitable.