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National media coverage of the 2011 federal election was a failure
Friday, June 1st, 2012
May 31 2012
Viewers can make character judgments with relative ease, but most don’t have the time to wade through a 65-page Conservative platform and compare details with the other two major parties. Nightly newscasts should set aside time each day during the campaign period to compare various policy planks, displacing the gladiatorial contest between party leaders… Instead of daily national popularity tracking, news organizations could commission “deliberative polling,” where a large representative sample of the population is informed about a subject and then questioned about their opinion… Media organizations must adopt a democratic ethic or falter as a crucial civic link in this geographically vast and ideationally sonorous country.
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