What's in the election bills? Reporters don't care and won't tell you.

[kpete]

By Dan Froomkin

Biden and Harris are trying hard to get Americans to understand how crucial these election bills are.

Meanwhile, our elite media is handicapping so furiously I'm not sure they're hearing a word.

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What’s in the election bills? Reporters don’t care and won’t tell you.

Political reporters have been almost exclusively focused on process and strategy – who’s up, who’s down, who’s talking to whom, who’s walking back what — while including a short paragraph or two about the bills’ aims, if that.

Obviously, process is hugely important here. Neither bill has a chance unless Biden and Democratic leaders can get their two loose cannons – Sens. Joe Manchin and Krysten Sinema – lined up and shooting straight.

But the contents of the bills should still be a much bigger part of the coverage. News reporters should be describing the various elements, the reasoning behind them, who opposes them, and why.
https://presswatchers.org/2022/01/whats-in-the-election-bills-reporters-dont-care-and-wont-tell-you/

[Farmer-Rick]

1. Identity politics doesn't deal with policy and facts

I noticed how little you get in what's in any of those bills Biden is attempting to get pass Manchin and McConnell.

Media would rather focus on who said what to whom. More like gossip columnists. This way you really don't know what's really happening and business as usual can keep on keeping on.

[Ninga]

6. This.

[gab13by13]

2. If you are waiting for the MSM

to help save our democracy you are going to have a long wait. Every Democrat in Congress should be seeking out a microphone explaining that the vote is between democracy and autocracy. They don't have to explain all the details of the bills, they need to keep it simple. Mitch McConnell looks for the microphone to defend autocracy, he gets more press coverage than Congressional Democrats.

[pecosbob]

4. Anyone waiting on the media to tell them what's happening in the world is f*cked

That's not their real job.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

5. Thank you so much for this post. Reporters are lazy co-conspirators if cant read what's in

the bill.

Although, if conveniently ignorant of the contents of the proposed democracy enhancing laws, they can feign ignorance and avoid asking any questions to republicans ABOUT the contents of the bills…and permit the spewing of the usual Twitter nonsense they are familiar with. To be later reported on Twitter.

In the defence of many reporters and journalists, they have marching orders from the top brass.

[SharonAnn]

7. I remember some of the content of the original Medicare bills

In our daily newspaper. I had to participate in a debate on the Kerr-Mills bill and the King-Anderson bill as a senior in high school. I got much of my information from the newspaper.

[crickets]

8. Important point. It's inexcusable that for all the blather about the bills,

the actual contents are not being reported. Seems like important information that people ought to know about.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. These are good bills that need to be passed

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