Today's Monday Media Review reflects on how legacy media is still engaging in malinformation around election cycles. It's not that the issues they're foregrounding are without some merit, but there's a lost principle of proportionality here, and it's drumming up fear and training citizens to see only certain electoral outcomes as "wins". To advance more robust democracies, we have to remember what those entail.
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https://open.substack.com/pub/mlclark/p/when-legacy-media-gamifies-democracy
Oh, I'm glad it helped.
I'd like to thank South Africa and France for their part in helping me sort out my thoughts on this!
It's easier to see the media trend at play, when you're watching it unfold in news coverage around a wider range of democratic contests.
Legacy media is *relentlessly* stumping for a kind of absolutist electoral outcome that doesn't reflect the inevitable complexity of more resilient forms of democracy.
Thanks for sharing, Laurel! Hope you're doing well.
@MLClark It was the bizarre reporting on french election results that twisted my brain into a knot of wordsalad and disbelief.
I’m making progress on trying to help a former student navigate bureaucracy, so I’m counting that as doing well ✊
Where is the lie?! 🙃
@MLClark THANK YOU! I’ve been unable to compose a single CS post without backspacing it into oblivion and you sorted the tornado in my brain into something that makes sense.