During a Monday conference, a corporate media senior who now works for Columbia Journalism School complained that voters are impulsively worried about the market while arguing that Donald Trump’s reported threat to “democracy” is the “existential” issue of the 2024 election.
In the conference hosted by the Washington, D. C. section of the Society of Professional Journalists, Sullivan suggested worries about the market are overblown because” the business is doing very, very properly right now”.
” You know, everyone says in these elections, as ballot responders, that they’re therefore concerned about the business. Also, the market is doing really, really well right now. Inflation is low, unemployment is low, growth is powerful, yet the cost of a Thanksgiving meal was lower in 2023 than it was the time before”, Sullivan said.
According to statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a typical Thanksgiving meal in 2023 expense$ 64.15, up from$ 64.15 in 2022. What Sullivan left out, however, is that a Thanksgiving dinner cost less than$ 55 during the entire duration of Donald Trump’s presidency, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation.
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” But somehow everyone wants to talk about how bad the economy is and you know, I do n’t think that we’re getting that story across either, although I actually have my doubts about whether that’s really on people’s minds”, she continued.
The current gasprices.aaa.com” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>national average for gas is$ 3.62 per gallon. According to a Gallup surveys conducted in February, 61 percent of voters disapprove of Biden’s economic policy. According to new information, prices also increased by a month over a year in March. In addition, a new report from the National Federation of Independent Business revealed that small business enthusiasm had fallen to its lowest level since 2012.
Sullivan said she thinks the 2024 vote is an “existential one” because, if Trump is elected once, he may begin “disrupt some of the restrictions and guardrails that prevented him and his presidency from harming politics as they could include the first time around.”
Sullivan even advised editors to stop worrying about their political bias and concentrate instead on the alleged negative effects of a second Trump presidency.
She said,” I do n’t believe it’s so far afield that our coverage does n’t reflect the importance of democracy issues and the truth,” adding that we should n’t be so defiant about orienting coverage in that way.
Sullivan argued that the media has previously attempted to portray political candidates with respect in their coverage, but she also refrained from saying that corporate media should never more portray Trump against the rules of journalism. ” These prospects are not the same at all and so to match them is really really, very misleading”, she said.
The Federalist’s Brianna Lyman is a journalist for votes.
