I despair of #PoliticalJournalism, seeing the WashingtonPost staff’s supposed summary of what #DystopiaDeSantis and the GOP want to do to America.

Did they kick @pbump out of the room while they wrote this?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/16/ron-desantis-florida-proposals/

@pbump has been demonstrating that which much of #PoliticalJournalism is missing: analysis.
“DeSantis is using perceived normalcy as a political stalking horse.”

The systemic bias of state-level anti-gay legislation - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/24/desantis-florida-texas-gender/

A question for political journalists.

If you were training young reporters about how to cover a national election, what would be the three main points you would make?

#journalism #training #elections #politics #politicaljournalism #electioncoverage #media #voting #journalism training

Great piece on the skewed incentives in modern mainstream political journalism by Dan Froomkin:

https://presswatchers.org/2022/11/heres-what-political-reporters-care-about-and-its-not-you/

"reporters respond to four core constituencies: Their editors, their sources, their peers, and right-wing trolls.

The public – and the obligation to accurately inform the public – just doesn’t rank. (And infuriating the left is considered a plus.)"

#Politics #PoliticalJournalism #JournalisticBias