An election debrief with no mention of voter suppression?
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“As the Rupert Murdoch empire continues to kill journalism, I rely in part on the New York Times, the BBC, NPR, and others, to bring me unbiased news and in-depth news analysis.
But how can you conduct a debrief of the 2024 election, as you did on 2024.11.06, without once mentioning the effect voter suppression had on the outcome??
The Roberts court gutted the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act, across the South record numbers of polling stations were closed in Black and/or poor neighborhoods almost exclusively, in the past two years the M.A.G.A. wing of the G.O.P. assaulted and often colonized swing state election boards, in that span multiple onerous new restrictions on voting rights were instituted, and up until Election Day Eve reports confirmed swing state ballots were being thrown out at record, heretofore-unseen rates.
Yet, somehow, it is so baked into your d.n.a. to uphold the myth of U.S. exceptionalism that you cannot bring yourselves to report on how increasingly unrepresentative of the national will our elections have become.
I sincerely hope you and others survive the full-on attack on the First Amendment which the Koch/Trump cartel oligarchy will surely launch … and I bemoan that the insidious assault launched by the behemoths of capitalism against independent local journalism over the last three-and-a-half decades has basically succeeded in killing local presses…
…but ye cats, you cannot continue sucking up to the corporate interests who benefit from this “U.S. exceptionalism“ myth, yet still succeed in reporting the truth: at some point, you need to choose the public interest over the genteel lie.
Just frikkin’ say out loud, “the accelerating conservative attack on voting rights and on voter turnout is succeeding beyond their wildest dreams, and its impact on election outcomes cannot be denied,” and you will become part of the solution, rather than passive abettors of the problem!
The truth is in the data, and it is staring us in the face. But to wake up the U.S. public to that truth in the data, it will take an act of journalism … and by the cuckoo’s beard, I hope one day you commit it!!”
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11/07/24
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