'If You Can Keep It': Covering The 2024 Election Responsibly
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🗓️ 4 March 2024
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It raises the question as we head into Super Tuesday and a long election year: How can the press responsibly cover the 2024 election?
Some news organizations have already committed to working differently this year. The Arizona Mirror announced last week that it's ditching "junk food" election coverage.
We discuss how media can best center voters and ignore the noise ahead of complex, and in many cases misleading, news cycles.
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| 0:33.0 | Enjoy the show. |
| 0:34.0 | Political newsrooms have a huge challenge on their hands in 2024. How do you |
| 0:47.1 | cover the democratic process when one of the candidates is anti-democratic. |
| 0:52.5 | It raises the question as we head into Super Tuesday and a long election year. |
| 0:56.5 | How can the press responsibly cover the 2024 election? |
| 1:00.8 | Here's what some of you told us you want to hear. |
| 1:03.0 | I would love it if NPR could give us stories of people who are motivating voters, who are doing a great job and have ideas that could help the rest of us do the same. |
| 1:17.0 | I would ask that the mainstream media stop editorializing or slanting information given to the public. |
| 1:25.0 | Who, what, where, when, why, and how. |
| 1:29.0 | Just the facts, ma'am. |
| 1:31.0 | I'm saddened because it seems like so much news coverage of the |
| 1:37.3 | election is all about personalities. It's not about the issues. It's not about what Biden or Trump accomplished or did not accomplish. Thanks everyone for all of those messages. |
| 1:43.0 | Many of you want fairness. |
| 1:48.0 | Thanks everyone for all of those messages. |
| 1:53.8 | Many of you want fairness from your politics coverage. |
| 1:56.9 | How can the media best center voters and ignore the noise ahead of complex and in many cases |
| 2:02.0 | misleading news cycles? We get into it after the break. |
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