Jay Rosen on How the Media Should Cover Trump and the 2020 Election

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4.2 • 726 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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After President Trump claimed last month that mail-in ballots will lead to a "rigged" election, journalism professor and media critic Jay Rosen wrote that the president now posed "an active threat to American democracy". But the media, he says, is still failing to convey the urgency of that threat. Instead, reporters too often amplify the president's dubious claims and normalize his conduct. Rosen joins Forum to lay out the shortcomings of traditional campaign coverage in the Trump era, and how news outlets should respond. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:50.9	NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen says that the media is falling short in its campaign
0:55.8	coverage and reporting on President Trump. Some of the problems are not new, things like an emphasis
1:01.1	on horse race reporting and both sidesism. Now he says the media is failing to adequately respond to
1:07.2	an administration that appears to be taking steps toward autocracy. Rosen recently
1:11.7	recommended that newsrooms direct their coverage toward very real threats to democracy, like
1:16.5	Trump's claims that mail-in ballots will lead to a rigged election. Coming up on forum,
1:20.8	we'll hear from Jay Rosen about how the press is covered President Trump and what changes are needed
1:25.8	for the 2020 election.
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