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Each week we’ll tell you about which newsrooms are standing up for democracy and which aren’t, by comparing ongoing reporting to our pro-democracy election coverage guidelines.

This week, media ignored a big Trump lie.

Read:
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The FCC revokes a License.

TERRIBLE conduct to be sure.  But compared to lying to the American people about a Presidential election just to prop up profits AND contributing to a riot at the Capitol in furtherance of a plan to overturn an election?  

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This is a precise filleting of the attack on NPR published this week by Bari Weiss’s shop.

As Aaron says, Berliner gets not one but THREE major facts wrong. And they are all false stories pushed by conservative media.
This is a media story, but not the one Berliner thinks it is.

Democratic Senators Senator John Fetterman & Senator Bob Casey are under fire for their decision to defend Rupert Murdoc in the The FCC license dispute.

Read about the latest developments in The Media and Democracy Project 📺 📰's The FCC challenge via Ted Hearn
policyband.com/p/dc-memo-dem-…

Jennifer Schulze Shame on the Gannett flagship USA TODAY gaslighting readers on the false narrative of non-citizens voting in Federal Elections. Malpractice compounded by ignoring all the ways states are making it harder for actual citizens to vote.

PRO TIP: The United States of America already has a federal law that makes it illegal for non-citizens to vote.

Make sure you include that critical fact in all headlines, news stories & social posts about this farce. Don't do this⤵️ THIS is journalism malpractice.

Chris Hayes FABULOUS first ep, talking policy and facts, not horse race… We learned more in this #WITHpod hour abt the issues around #immigration policy than we have learned anywhere else, ever. Please consider signing our Pro-Democracy Election Coverage open letter mediaanddemocracyproject.org/2024-election-…

Commentary: Democracy withstood attacks in 2020. But the forces behind those attacks never went away. The election deniers of four years ago are back working even harder on election subversion in 2024.
coloradonewsline.com/2024/04/11/ele…

Wondering why Senator John Fetterman & Senator Bob Casey are defending Rupert Murdoch? You're not alone...

Bill Kristol and Ervin S. Duggan, write about what these Democratic Senators get wrong in their defense of FOX 29. The Media and Democracy Project 📺 📰's The FCC challenge is all about character!

Great piece by Rebuild Local News policy director Anna Brugmann and Mark Histed Exciting concept: enhance the spending power of consumers to support local news

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1) Cover elections like they matter more than sports scores.

2) Make threats to democracy clear.

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