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Articles tagged 2024 election (13)

This election cycle showed that our evaluations of external reality are increasingly partisan. Can the media bridge the gap?
“You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink…Journalists need to understand how distributing true and useful information out into the world can be its own rewarding service — no matter what happens next.”
Two poll workers sitting at a table shine a flashlight on a ballot
“We’ve learned, especially in the last few cycles, that it’s not necessarily possible or a good idea to let [the electoral] process play out in silence.”
“The problem with voting stories is that the people who make themselves most available don’t know what the hell they’re talking about.”
The Center for Community News at the University of Vermont is leading “the first nationally coordinated effort to strengthen university-led election coverage.”
Led by risk-averse corporate owners, dozens of the biggest U.S. newspapers have decided their editorials should express opinions on everything except who should be president.
“There was some feeling that the Times should stick to reporting trends and let the pollsters make the forecasts.”
Partisanship, conspiratorial thinking, and IRL connections make for a potent mix — on both the left and the right.
From defunding NPR and PBS to kicking reporters out of the White House, it’s an array of conservative priorities and Trumpian retreads.