On this edition of Your Call’s Media Roundtable, we're discussing coverage of the midterm elections and the state of political reporting. Major media outlets ran endless stories forecasting a 'red wave,' but that did not happen. How did this narrative take shape and what will it take to improve political reporting?
Guests:
Will Bunch, national columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, and author of After the Ivory Tower Falls: How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politics - and How to Fix It
Mark Jacob, freelance writer and former Metro Editor at the Chicago Tribune and Sunday Editor at the Chicago Sun-Times
Web Resources:
The Washington Post: Biggest loser of the midterm elections? The media.
The Philadelphia Inquirer: The day young voters lined up to keep the American republic for 2 more years
Media Matters: Exit polls and ballot measures prove mainstream pundits wrong and show abortion is a winning issue
Media Matters: Right-wing media promised a backlash against LGBTQ equality would fuel a midterm tsunami that failed to materialize
Press Think: He used to edit political stories at the Chicago Tribune. Now he says the press is failing our democracy.
