2020 Democratic Candidates Policies on Children's Education and Poverty
Hello, I’m your host Maya Contreras and welcome to a new season of obscene. This is a special holiday episode, the official new season of Obscene will start the first week of January 2020 were I’ll be talking to candidates running for office, voting rights, and policy issues you should be on the lookout for at the ballot box and so much more.
Before I get into the interview today I first want to bring your attention to an article published last month by StoryBench, a news division of Northeastern University’s School of Journalism. It’s an article that I think deserves more attention, and confirms a lot of underlying frustrations I have expressed on Twitter and that other have also been disheartened with. I talking about how legacy media has handled the coverage of the 2020 Election Cycle thus far.
Here’s a paragraph from the Storybench article titled: How news media are setting the 2020 election agenda: Chasing daily controversies, often burying policy:
"It’s a paradox of examining political coverage. Are news media just reporting what the political candidates are talking about? Or does political journalism really set the agenda by selecting stories around specific news items, scandals and issues du jour?
Our topic analysis of ~10,000 news articles on the 2020 Democratic candidates, published between March and October in an ideological diverse range of 28 news outlets, reveals that political coverage, at least this cycle, tracks with the ebbs and flows of scandals, viral moments and news items.
This tendency, in turn, allows important issues such as health care, climate change and reproductive rights to fall off the agenda every time a Trump-driven media cycle emerges from some new outrage or a flavor-of-the-day controversy pops up."
So, I agree! This is what has been missing from the 2020 Conversation. This is why I asked with Shimica Gaskins Executive Director of the children’s defense fund in California, to have a conversation with me about policy, specifically policy that some of the leading 2020 Candidates have proposed around children and families – everything from Baby Bonds to Universal Pre-K.
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Before I get into the interview today I first want to bring your attention to an article published last month by StoryBench, a news division of Northeastern University’s School of Journalism. It’s an article that I think deserves more attention, and confirms a lot of underlying frustrations I have expressed on Twitter and that other have also been disheartened with. I talking about how legacy media has handled the coverage of the 2020 Election Cycle thus far.
Here’s a paragraph from the Storybench article titled: How news media are setting the 2020 election agenda: Chasing daily controversies, often burying policy:
"It’s a paradox of examining political coverage. Are news media just reporting what the political candidates are talking about? Or does political journalism really set the agenda by selecting stories around specific news items, scandals and issues du jour?
Our topic analysis of ~10,000 news articles on the 2020 Democratic candidates, published between March and October in an ideological diverse range of 28 news outlets, reveals that political coverage, at least this cycle, tracks with the ebbs and flows of scandals, viral moments and news items.
This tendency, in turn, allows important issues such as health care, climate change and reproductive rights to fall off the agenda every time a Trump-driven media cycle emerges from some new outrage or a flavor-of-the-day controversy pops up."
So, I agree! This is what has been missing from the 2020 Conversation. This is why I asked with Shimica Gaskins Executive Director of the children’s defense fund in California, to have a conversation with me about policy, specifically policy that some of the leading 2020 Candidates have proposed around children and families – everything from Baby Bonds to Universal Pre-K.
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