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
Stakes don't change like odds do. Odds can be tracked, there's a whole industry just for polling and commenting poll results. Politics made into sports, polls turned into scoreboards and vote tallies into box scores.
It's so easy, to the moth of lazy journalism, scoreboard politics is a beacon fire. Never mind we'll all burn.
Jay Rosen
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