Good News, Bad News: September, 20 2024. With 46 days left until Election Day we need political coverage that uplifts and defends democracy.
You folks at the Media and Democracy Blog might be interested in this piece on impoverished and low-income Americans not being centered directly in the media-led debates and discourse. That's a a major democracy gap too.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/subramaniamvincent/2024/09/18/the-missing-swing-voters-whose-voices-we-need-to-hear/
Thank you. Definitely something that has been a problem forever -- which is not to say it isn't important today.
Unfortunate, ironic, that it has a paywall but I was able to circumvent by changing browsers.
I believe that LBJ in 1964 was the last major-party presidential candidate to raise poverty as a matter of public concern.
You folks at the Media and Democracy Blog might be interested in this piece on impoverished and low-income Americans not being centered directly in the media-led debates and discourse. That's a a major democracy gap too.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/subramaniamvincent/2024/09/18/the-missing-swing-voters-whose-voices-we-need-to-hear/
Thank you. Definitely something that has been a problem forever -- which is not to say it isn't important today.
Unfortunate, ironic, that it has a paywall but I was able to circumvent by changing browsers.
I believe that LBJ in 1964 was the last major-party presidential candidate to raise poverty as a matter of public concern.