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How Well is the Media Vetting Donald Trump?

How Well is the Media Vetting Donald Trump?

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But quantity does not necessarily imply quality.While coverage has been abundant, it is worth exploring the nature of that coverage, and, specifically, whether the media is adequately vetting Trump as a candidate. Chuck Todd, the host of NBC’s Meet the Press, claims that it has. “A common criticism you’ve heard is that Trump’s rise is the media’s fault, because we have enabled his rise,” Todd has said.“But,” he added, before listing several of Trump’s flip-flops and liberal-to-conservative policy evolutions, “you could argue that the media has also provided all the material that normally a campaign would want to put together an attack against Trump.”
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Corruption, Super PACs, and Why the Media Hasn’t Covered Democracy Spring

Corruption, Super PACs, and Why the Media Hasn’t Covered Democracy Spring

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Twenty-nine seconds: according to Lee Fang and Zaid Jilani of The Intercept, this is how much time cable news networks Fox News and MSNBC devoted to daytime and afternoon TV coverage of the Democracy Spring protests as of April 12. On April 11, when 400 protestors were arrested for a sit-in at the Capitol, some were heard chanting, “Where is CNN?” which had not yet covered the protests.
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5 Ways To Stay an Informed Voter in Today’s Media Environment

5 Ways To Stay an Informed Voter in Today’s Media Environment

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It doesn’t take long for political discussions on social media to turn negative.From vitriolic remarks, to hyperbolic statements, to name-calling, online political conversations tend to turn into a tit-for-tat verbal slug fest. One accusation in particular is common in YouTube comment sections, Facebook threads, Twitter, and other online forums, and that is one person accusing someone they disagree with of being a “low information voter” — or more crassly, calling the person an idiot or stupid. 
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