'BradCast' 9/20/2023 (Guest: Media critic Dan Froomkin on advice to media; Special election results in NH, PA)
On today's 'BradCast':\xa0 Encouraging news from special election results in two critical swing-states, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania, in which Democratic candidates continued the party's winning streak in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) implemented automatic voter registration at state Dept. of Transportation offices to increase voter participation, infuriating anti-democracy, pro-authoritarian Republicans in the state legislature. Media critic and veteran journalist DAN FROOMKIN discusses his new essay, 'A desperate appeal to newsroom leaders on the eve of a chaos election,' in which he interviewed dozens of experts on what America's newsrooms can and should do to improve their approach to political coverage in advance of the critical 2024 election. Froomkin explains why corporate media outlets still default to 'horse-race' coverage on the odds instead of the stakes for democracy, how to combat misleading 'both sides' coverage that misinforms the public, how newsrooms can defend the free press and journalism as a whole against attacks from the increasingly authoritarian right, and much more.