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Showing Original Post only (View all)Wow, just wow! The Hartmann Report... [View all]
https://hartmannreport.com/p/saturday-report-112523-speaking-of'Americas largest newspapers are actively working against our democracy. The Columbia Journalism Review, arguably the premiere watchdog of American news reporting, is out with a scathing indictment of political coverage in The New York Times and The Washington Post. Because these newspapers are so widely read and respected, they tend to set the agenda and tone for most other reporting in the United States, and what the Review found was shocking:
Both emphasized the horse race and campaign palace intrigue, stories that functioned more to entertain readers than to educate them on essential differences between political parties. By the numbers, of four hundred and eight articles on the front page of the Times during the period we analyzed, about halftwo hundred nineteenwere about domestic politics. A generous interpretation found that just ten of those stories explained domestic public policy in any detail; only one front-page article in the lead-up to the midterms really leaned into discussion about a policy matter in Congress: Republican efforts to shrink Social Security. Of three hundred and ninety-three front-page articles in the Post, two hundred fifteen were about domestic politics; our research found only four stories that discussed any form of policy. The Post had no front-page stories in the months ahead of the midterms on policies that candidates aimed to bring to the fore or legislation they intended to pursue. Instead, articles speculated about candidates and discussed where voter bases were leaning.
This is the exact same type of reporting that led up to the 2016 election and brought us Donald Trump as president. Its almost a cliche these days to complain about the infotainment we see in TV and radio news reporting that has come about in the wake of Reagan ending enforcement of the Fairness Doctrine, but to see this same type of horserace coverage passing as news on the front pages of the nations largest newspapers is, frankly, a crime against our democracy. For voters to make intelligent decisions about candidates, they must be well-informed. Sadly, that is very much not what is happening today in America, and it bodes ill for the 2024 elections...'
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I fear that a lot of Americans do not know that corporate media is a shill for horse-race politics.
Lonestarblue
Nov 2023
#7
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 was enacted by the 104th Congress in Jan/Feb 1996.
jaxexpat
Nov 2023
#38
Good Thing Katharine Graham Was In Charge Of The Post During The Reign Of Tricky Dick
Jacob2
Nov 2023
#8
Well, when we're talking about the biases of sources, Russia Today would be pretty hard to ignore
muriel_volestrangler
Nov 2023
#23
I use this site a lot, to look up other sites/sources, although I wonder how they would rate themselves. ???
CrispyQ
Nov 2023
#15
Exactly. "Issues" are rarely front page news, that's not really the purpose of the front page.
thesquanderer
Nov 2023
#35
yep. i've heard him talk about the fairness doctrine too; it certainly does not seem like
orleans
Nov 2023
#29
It's an odd time when I feel I get the most accurate take on the news is Late Night talk shows.
LakeArenal
Nov 2023
#31