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This is such a great piece. I think media obviously needs to shift how it covers presidential elections and in terms of what questions we should be asking I think jayrosen_nyu hits it right on the nose. But it has me thinking about more... Sulliview/1082318442257108993Permalink On twitter.com
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I think the first issue that occurs to me is what is the underlying cause. jayrosen_nyu is right to identify a particular set of mindsets that are harmful and propagate bad "gameday"/horse race political coverage, but I think there's more...Permalink On twitter.com
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See, the Politics as Sport coverage approach is particularly effective at attracting, aggregating and retaining attention, especially for larger publishers who can use it to replace what is seen as fluffier day-to-day Culture coverage. And...Permalink On twitter.com
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It works well in CNN's Always Breaking News world and it gets publishers, editors and journalists on TV, always good for careers. So an alternative can't just shift focus, it should provide an equal attraction that can maintain the flow of attention and prestige.Permalink On twitter.com
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That got me thinking. Gameday politics journalism thrives on numbers and stats. Making numbers go up and down creates exciting headlines and keeps people tracking a common thread where politicians must compete on polls to be "Likable"...Permalink On twitter.com
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In his thread on "citizens agenda"-style coverage, Rosen notes a particular public to be pursued. But less local your news org the harder to state. So what if we put the big data people to work on creating a gameday style for understanding citizen agendas? jayrosen_nyu/1059864347583889408On twitter.com
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Data journalists could easily render the 'average voter' with data. Even better, a set of regular voters, by tax bracket, location, education or any other set of major descriptors that can describe large swaths of voters in an easily parsable way...Permalink On twitter.com
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Once you have one, or a set, of "average citizens" then coverage is rendered by its *effect* on these proxies for the common population, something that can easily be used alongside the attention-grabbing gameday style.Permalink On twitter.com
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"Candidate X's Policies effect Middle Tax Bracket People by this way over 1, 5, and 8 years." etc... Then candidate policies can be used to rank them on important issues to that type of voter: economy, prisons, etc...Permalink On twitter.com
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Where you can't rank a candidate on these indexes you have an unanswered question for them to address, you can pull that out and make it a point of your coverage, and use it as a tool to interact with candidates - jayrosen_nyu/1059864354936537088Permalink On twitter.com
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This sort of thing is a lot more technically possible to enact on a coverage level now than it was even 4 years ago. And it answers the citizens' coverage questions while on a national scale AND it maintains the index-changing events and race-style coverage that holds attention.Permalink On twitter.com
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Horse race style presidential coverage maintains not just because of journalism's blind spots but because it is profitable to large journalism outlets. Perhaps a set of citizen issue indexes can maintain what makes it profitable while rejecting what is anti-democracy.Permalink On twitter.com
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I believe Sulliview is 100% right. We need a change. It's bad for democracy and consumer exhaustion with the model is growing. But perhaps we can render a new model that maintains the ecosystem of numbers, easy threads to follow, and meta-commentary in a healthy way?Permalink On twitter.com
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