The Media & Democracy Project
The Media & Democracy Project  ·  3 months ago
Our 18 guidelines encourage newsrooms to center fact-based reporting that shifts the focus from polls and drama to candidates’ policies, past governance, behavior and capability.

The guidelines fall under three categories:

1) Treat elections like they matter more than sports scores
2) Make threats to democracy clear
3) Protect Americans from disinformation

Voters need substantive coverage of the issues, not dumb coverage of who's up and who's down.

#Press#Democracy#Journalism

2/6

Treat elections like they matter more than sports scores! • Prioritize substantive coverage of the issues that matter to voters' lives. • Make headlines accurate and informative, not clickbait. • Stop making predictions and pushing polls at the expense of issues coverage. • Celebrate and uplift election workers, voters, and the election process. • Don't set aside moral judgment when covering obvious lies and bigotry. • Hold politicians to account for their positions, statements, and behavior, as well as those of their party’s leader. We're demanding that newsrooms improve their 2024 election coverage: url: tiny.cc/prodemocracy2024
Treat elections like they matter more than sports scores! • Prioritize substantive coverage of the issues that matter to voters' lives. • Make headlines accurate and informative, not clickbait. • Stop making predictions and pushing polls at the expense of issues coverage. • Celebrate and uplift election workers, voters, and the election process. • Don't set aside moral judgment when covering obvious lies and bigotry. • Hold politicians to account for their positions, statements, and behavior, as well as those of their party’s leader. We're demanding that newsrooms improve their 2024 election coverage: url: tiny.cc/prodemocracy2024
Treat elections like they matter more than sports scores! • Prioritize substantive coverage of the issues that matter to voters' lives. • Make headlines accurate and informative, not clickbait. • Stop making predictions and pushing polls at the expense of issues coverage. • Celebrate and uplift election workers, voters, and the election process. • Don't set aside moral judgment when covering obvious lies and bigotry. • Hold politicians to account for their positions, statements, and behavior, as well as those of their party’s leader. We're demanding that newsrooms improve their 2024 election coverage: url: tiny.cc/prodemocracy2024
The Media & Democracy Project
The Media & Democracy Project  ·  3 months ago
We are thrilled that experienced journalist and wise media observer Margaret Sullivan said our guidelines for better press coverage of the election are "thoughtful" and "urgently needed"

Read what she said in full here:
https://open.substack.com/pub/margaretsullivan/p/heres-an-urgently-needed-pre-election

Read the guidelines here:
https://www.mediaanddemocracyproject.org/2024-election-coverage

#PRESS#Journalism#Democracy

6/6

Graphic with highlights of our guidelines. 3 main categories plus bullets under each one. Heading: Urgent Need for Pro-Democracy 2024 Election Coverage 1) COVER ELECTIONS LIKE THEY MATTER MORE THAN SPORTS * Prioritize issues that matter to voter’s lives * Make headlines accurate and informative, not clickbait * Stop making meaningless predictions 2) MAKE THREATS TO DEMOCRACY CLEAR * Inform voters of freedoms they’ll lose if Project 2025 wins * Abandon false equivalence between traditional and fascistic candidates * Cover Big Lie-fueled attacks on election legitimacy 3) PROTECT AMERICANS FROM DISINFORMATION * Explain that disinformation by MAGA is a strategy * Don't platform liars or uncritically repeat strategic MAGA election lies * Include a public figure’s history of election lies when quoting them Follow us on Twitter: @FixMediaNow and @MAD_Democracy Logo of: MediaAndDemocracyProject.org
Graphic with highlights of our guidelines. 3 main categories plus bullets under each one. Heading: Urgent Need for Pro-Democracy 2024 Election Coverage 1) COVER ELECTIONS LIKE THEY MATTER MORE THAN SPORTS * Prioritize issues that matter to voter’s lives * Make headlines accurate and informative, not clickbait * Stop making meaningless predictions 2) MAKE THREATS TO DEMOCRACY CLEAR * Inform voters of freedoms they’ll lose if Project 2025 wins * Abandon false equivalence between traditional and fascistic candidates * Cover Big Lie-fueled attacks on election legitimacy 3) PROTECT AMERICANS FROM DISINFORMATION * Explain that disinformation by MAGA is a strategy * Don't platform liars or uncritically repeat strategic MAGA election lies * Include a public figure’s history of election lies when quoting them Follow us on Twitter: @FixMediaNow and @MAD_Democracy Logo of: MediaAndDemocracyProject.org
Graphic with highlights of our guidelines. 3 main categories plus bullets under each one. Heading: Urgent Need for Pro-Democracy 2024 Election Coverage 1) COVER ELECTIONS LIKE THEY MATTER MORE THAN SPORTS * Prioritize issues that matter to voter’s lives * Make headlines accurate and informative, not clickbait * Stop making meaningless predictions 2) MAKE THREATS TO DEMOCRACY CLEAR * Inform voters of freedoms they’ll lose if Project 2025 wins * Abandon false equivalence between traditional and fascistic candidates * Cover Big Lie-fueled attacks on election legitimacy 3) PROTECT AMERICANS FROM DISINFORMATION * Explain that disinformation by MAGA is a strategy * Don't platform liars or uncritically repeat strategic MAGA election lies * Include a public figure’s history of election lies when quoting them Follow us on Twitter: @FixMediaNow and @MAD_Democracy Logo of: MediaAndDemocracyProject.org
Newsmast
Newsmast  ·  3 months ago
Interested in slow news?

There's a UK based news publication called Tortoise 🐢 who specialise in it. You can read what that means on their website: https://www.tortoisemedia.com/

Recently, they joined Threads so we asked them to turn on Fediverse Sharing. They did!

Follow @tortoise or catch them in the @journalismandcomment Feed!

#journalism #news #mastodon #press #slownews #federation #fediverse#Threads

The Media & Democracy Project
The Media & Democracy Project  ·  3 months ago
The rights and freedoms that Americans cherish are at risk. It’s more important than ever for news executives and journalists to step up and put the public before profit, democracy before tyranny, and truth before lies. 5/5

More here:
https://www.mediaanddemocracyproject.org/2024-election-coverage

#Press#Democracy#Journalism
5/5

The Media & Democracy Project
The Media & Democracy Project  ·  3 months ago
Our 18 guidelines encourage newsrooms to center fact-based reporting that shifts the focus from polls and drama to candidates’ policies, past governance, behavior and capability.

The guidelines fall under three categories:

1) Treat elections like they matter more than sports scores
2) Make threats to democracy clear
3) Protect Americans from disinformation

Voters need substantive coverage of the issues, not dumb coverage of who's up and who's down.

#Press#Democracy#Journalism

2/5

The Media & Democracy Project
The Media & Democracy Project  ·  3 months ago
At the ballot box, voters deserve the opportunity to make their choices with crystal clear information about the threats to their rights and freedoms posed by anti-democracy candidates.

https://www.mediaanddemocracyproject.org/2024-election-coverage

#Press#Democracy#Journalism

3/5

Journalists, defend democracy. Make threats to democracy clear! • Inform voters of the freedoms they will lose if the MAGA movement wins. • Abandon false equivalence between traditional and fascistic candidates. • Expose candidates who foment political violence. • Call out lies and bad behavior in every piece of reporting. • Prominently cover the Big Lie-fueled attack on election legitimacy and voting rights. We're demanding that newsrooms improve their 2024 election coverage: url: tiny.cc/prodemocracy2024
Journalists, defend democracy. Make threats to democracy clear! • Inform voters of the freedoms they will lose if the MAGA movement wins. • Abandon false equivalence between traditional and fascistic candidates. • Expose candidates who foment political violence. • Call out lies and bad behavior in every piece of reporting. • Prominently cover the Big Lie-fueled attack on election legitimacy and voting rights. We're demanding that newsrooms improve their 2024 election coverage: url: tiny.cc/prodemocracy2024
Journalists, defend democracy. Make threats to democracy clear! • Inform voters of the freedoms they will lose if the MAGA movement wins. • Abandon false equivalence between traditional and fascistic candidates. • Expose candidates who foment political violence. • Call out lies and bad behavior in every piece of reporting. • Prominently cover the Big Lie-fueled attack on election legitimacy and voting rights. We're demanding that newsrooms improve their 2024 election coverage: url: tiny.cc/prodemocracy2024
The Media & Democracy Project
The Media & Democracy Project  ·  3 months ago
Our 18 guidelines encourage newsrooms to center fact-based reporting that shifts the focus from polls and drama to candidates’ policies, past governance, behavior and capability.

The guidelines fall under three categories:

1) Treat elections like they matter more than sports scores
2) Make threats to democracy clear
3) Protect Americans from disinformation

Voters need substantive coverage of the issues, not dumb coverage of who's up and who's down.

#Press#Democracy#Journalism

2/5

Treat elections like they matter more than sports scores! • Prioritize substantive coverage of the issues that matter to voters' lives. • Make headlines accurate and informative, not clickbait. • Stop making predictions and pushing polls at the expense of issues coverage. • Celebrate and uplift election workers, voters, and the election process. • Don't set aside moral judgment when covering obvious lies and bigotry. • Hold politicians to account for their positions, statements, and behavior, as well as those of their party’s leader. We're demanding that newsrooms improve their 2024 election coverage: url: tiny.cc/prodemocracy2024
Treat elections like they matter more than sports scores! • Prioritize substantive coverage of the issues that matter to voters' lives. • Make headlines accurate and informative, not clickbait. • Stop making predictions and pushing polls at the expense of issues coverage. • Celebrate and uplift election workers, voters, and the election process. • Don't set aside moral judgment when covering obvious lies and bigotry. • Hold politicians to account for their positions, statements, and behavior, as well as those of their party’s leader. We're demanding that newsrooms improve their 2024 election coverage: url: tiny.cc/prodemocracy2024
Treat elections like they matter more than sports scores! • Prioritize substantive coverage of the issues that matter to voters' lives. • Make headlines accurate and informative, not clickbait. • Stop making predictions and pushing polls at the expense of issues coverage. • Celebrate and uplift election workers, voters, and the election process. • Don't set aside moral judgment when covering obvious lies and bigotry. • Hold politicians to account for their positions, statements, and behavior, as well as those of their party’s leader. We're demanding that newsrooms improve their 2024 election coverage: url: tiny.cc/prodemocracy2024