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In our digitally chaotic world, relying on the election-reporting procedures of the past is like bringing the regulations of chess to the Thunderdome.
1st, right here are three new tales from The Atlantic:
New Rules
This past weekend, I was on a panel at the annual conference of the International Symposium on On the internet Journalism, in attractive downtown Austin. Many journalists mentioned the problem: Are we heading to get it appropriate this time? Have the media realized their classes, and are journalists ready for the vertiginous slog of the 2024 marketing campaign?
My solution: only if we know how profoundly the regulations of the activity have improved.
Lest we want reminding, this year’s election characteristics a prospect who incited an insurrection, identified as for terminating sections of the Structure, was found liable for what a federal judge says was “rape” as it is normally understood, faces 88 felony costs, and—I’m tempted to include “etcetera” listed here, but that’s the