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Dear Journalists, Please Do Your Duty for Democracy
Readers need sustained, nuanced election coverage now more than ever
Americans’ rights to vote, and to have their votes counted accurately, are the basis of democracy. Those rights are under attack — via insecure elections, voter suppression, grotesque gerrymandering, and other direct and indirect attacks on our central rights and duties in a democracy.
Malign forces and staggering incompetence have made our elections a travesty. You would think, given the state of our elections, that they would be at or near the top of journalists’ agenda — as an issue deserving of relentless journalism putting it front and center for the public.
Instead of the sustained, deep, broad, contextualized coverage elections should have, we’ve gotten sporadic, episodic coverage.
It is not, and that represents a staggering failure.
Instead of the sustained, deep, broad, contextualized coverage elections should have, we’ve gotten sporadic, episodic coverage.
Some of it is brilliant. For example, “The Crisis of Election Security,” Kim Zetter’s superbly researched New York Times article on America’s (deliberately?) insecure and…
