Notes on How to Cover News for the 21st Century

May 09, 2012 13:15

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how to cover the 21st century. go where the voters are and encourage them to vote. this would include latinos who will apparently be the majority voters soon.

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asking people, on their turf, not in polls or in your office in a focus group, what they're worried about. what do they think most about? ie., what are the actual political issues as opposed to frank luntz's and grover norquist's?

Under Cantor's leadership, Norquist's anti-tax pledge was directly responsible for last summer's debt-ceiling standoff that wrecked the nation's credit rating by leading the nation to the brink of default. "Congress was willing to cause severe economic damage to the entire population," marvels Paul O'Neill, Bush's former Treasury secretary, "simply because they were slaves to an idiot's idea of how the world works."

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/grover-norquist-the-billionaires-best-friend-20111109#ixzz1uP5JniBB
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/grover-norquist-the-billionaires-best-friend-20111109

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bilingual short news for apps. pioneered in Latina mag; even the poorest most homeless person now has a cellphone.

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young voters issues. centrist. green. pro-war. anti-abortion. all carry $15K student loan debt. predatory lending.
http://projectvote.org/images/publications/Youth%20Voting/2010_Policy_Paper-Enfranchising_American_Youth.pdf

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enviro justice, lack of enforcement, health
http://www.cbf.org/page.aspx?pid=2518 -- scandalous lack of enforcement of pollution laws already on the books

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the suburbs -- parking lot, cars, working out of your car as office space is downsized. beltway/cruising/LA car culture; the garlick-fication of the burbs as entry level immigrants avoid inner city, etc. people in cars are limbaugh's audience.

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transpo issues, smart growth, retro-fitting transpo and highway systems planned for commuting into the inner city rather than to jobs sited round beltway

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taking the political discourse, including abortion as a political issue, away from the republicans. disassembling their 40 year hegemony based on this:

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reform campaign spending law and make it clear to the supreme court that citizens united was their last fuckup: people have the votes, no matter how many billionaries spend all their money on lunatics.

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the supreme court is accountable to the people and its time is up. there's a moveon/flashmob/kickstart/ aspect to the 24hour news cycle the internet has inaugurated that should be exploited.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/04/03/impeach-the-supreme-court-justices-if-they-overturn-health-care-law.html

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both tina's and ariana's newspapers are consistently in technorati's top 10. what do t and a know that the washington post and the new york times do not? what is the jon stewart effect -- gen x and younger get all their news from jon? pro and con?

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what are the cons of mandated (kickstarter/pro publica) flashmob journalism?
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