Legacy Media Treat Elections as Sports Events

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Article by feris Hero, Daily Kos, 9/24/24

Headline: Dear Legacy Media, Election Coverage Is Not (And Never Should Be) A Sporting Event

“The legacy media coverage of elections is too often treated by them and others as some kind of sporting event. I’m not even really discussing the elections themselves, but rather the coverage itself is the sporting event. A bad week of media coverage gets stories about ‘How Can the Campaign Turn This Around?’, which is often a cover to run negative points about the opposing campaign. Media complains that campaign isn’t providing enough details on some policy point, ignoring the fact that no politician has provided actual details on policies since at least before any of us were born.”

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