The media is still not doing enough
Plagued by bothsidism the media can't really step up to end this slow motion coup.
They hem and haw about how to phrase the issue in a polite manner, They need to step up and give full voice to the GOP attacks on democracy. They need to stop using weak weasel words to describe the GOP take over. They need to push back hard on the GOP media who keeps pushing the lies.
It is a crisis, Sound like it is media!
We are losing our democracy day by day.
If American democracy is going to survive, the media must make this crucial shift
Journalists stepped it up in 2021, but now we need a concerted effort
In the year since the Jan. 6 insurrection, mainstream journalists have done a lot of things right. They’ve published major investigations, pointed out politicians’ lies and, in many cases, finally learned how to clearly communicate the facts of what happened leading up to that horrendous riot at the U.S. Capitol — and what is happening now as pro-Trump Republicans steadily chip away at the very checks and balances that saved American democracy last year.
Much of this work has been impressive. And yet, something crucial is missing. For the most part, news organizations are not making democracy-under-siege a central focus of the work they present to the public.
“We are losing our democracy day by day, and journalists are individually aware of this, but media outlets are not centering this as the story it should be,” said Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a scholar of autocracy and the author of “Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/01/03/media-democracy-jan6-atlantic-npr/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F35a9995%2F61d3305c9d2fda3f8b7dfb69%2F5c016898ae7e8a6dbe99f09f%2F23%2F67%2F61d3305c9d2fda3f8b7dfb69
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