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Good questions, TBD. I don't have a complete agenda of reform for the press--I was mostly just trying to get a convo going--but I do have some thoughts. I think the press should stop using the word "conservative" to describe those 8 senators and 147 House members (all Republicans) who voted against certifying the election, even after 1/6. There is nothing in the slightest bit "conservative" about them, as Liz Cheney rightly notes. They should be called "election denialists" or "authoritarian Republicans" or something else. Maybe you have a better idea.

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ā€œIā€™m not an alarmist! Or a partisan! See, The Atlantic, NYT, and CNN agree with me!ā€

Bahahhah

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Good examples! I'd also like to hear very specifically how Jonathan Alter would implement this. Admittedly I'm not convinced Biden has been treated worse than Trump--I actually think he often still gets less pushback from most media than he would were he Trump or any Republican. I thought the media was right to start calling Trump's lies lies, which was a huge thing to do, especially once he was president. But I think that sort of thing has to be used only when something is truly demonstrably a lie--which is a judgement call, admittedly. I wouldn't agree that they should call someone a pedophile before they're convicted of it.

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Hm, I donā€™t doubt democracy is imperiled. But thatā€™s in part because Iā€™ve been reading in main steam media for four years that democracy is in peril. Thatā€™s a popular topic. So Iā€™m not entirely clear what the concrete changes are that you want to see in coverage. Would love some specific examples to clarify.

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Just for starters, let's apply a few choice, obvious adjectives to seditious congresspersons. Let's call MTG a racist hundreds of times each week. Let's call Gaetz a pedophile hundreds of times too. Let's call Boebert a white supremacist all the time. It's not strictly-balanced journalism, but it's the truth.

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Milbank rightly shows Lizza as a quisling for the neo-fascist right. Yes, it's past time to shift the paradigm and report the BIG STORY - democracy in peril!

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