It's New Year's Eve and honestly, we have a lot of mixed emotions about tonight. On the one hand, we're happy to leave 2024 in the past. On the other hand, we know there are tough fights waiting for us in the new year.
Despite it all, we're also hopeful. And it's because of the way we've seen this movement step up in the past month.
Here are five resolutions for keeping democracy alive in 2025. 🧵
Been reading endless pieces about how journalism fared in 2024 from all of the major sources --- major news outlets plus think tanks such as American Press Institute, Nieman, Reuters Institute, et al.
None of them came close to acknowledging the basic reality:
Journalism failed, abjectly, to do its job. A few honorable exceptions do not begin to make up for that.
And as our media orgs have made clear, they intend to carry that failure forward into 2025.
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The hospitality workers' union UNITE HERE just endorsed Vice President #Harris.
SHERO is a reader-supported publication, that makes most articles free and available to the public. Please support independent journalism for everyone by becoming a paid subscriber today. The debate last night was a disaster with a capitol D-I and I woke up this morning with a deficit of energy in my tank. I will be tuning out from all main stream media today, which will no doubt be repeating the same few tag lines about Biden’s seemingly weak performance last night ad nauseum. The entire point of a political debate is to accurately provide the electorate with the candidate’s political intentions so they can make an informed vote. To say that the
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