Sep
10

Plenty of research backs up claims that voter ID laws lead to voter suppression. Despite this evidence, media is applying false balance to its coverage of Republican-sponsored laws that make voting more difficult.Should media give the same coverage to claims based on political distortions (in this case non-existent “widespread” voter fraud) as they do for nonpartisan, research-based facts?

Plenty of research backs up claims that voter ID laws lead to voter suppression. Despite this evidence, media is applying false balance to its coverage of Republican-sponsored laws that make voting more difficult.

Should media give the same coverage to claims based on political distortions (in this case non-existent “widespread” voter fraud) as they do for nonpartisan, research-based facts?

Source mediamatters.org

Notes

  1. philosophermaggot reblogged this from realworldnews
  2. emeraldgirl503 reblogged this from reagan-was-a-horrible-president
  3. zhounder reblogged this from oldenough2burmom
  4. thepajmahal reblogged this from truth-has-a-liberal-bias
  5. temporallyexcogitated reblogged this from winneganfake
  6. thescheebzwaytolife reblogged this from zarggg
  7. monalisasmiled reblogged this from faedenwolf and added:
    I wonder if people realize that if Voter ID passes, they’ll be taking away votes from countless homeless veterans who...
  8. fatboiv reblogged this from oldenough2burmom
  9. themesfin reblogged this from realworldnews
  10. oldenough2burmom reblogged this from truth-has-a-liberal-bias
  11. zeshuetoral reblogged this from truth-has-a-liberal-bias
  12. faedenwolf reblogged this from missalexus
  13. winneganfake reblogged this from idlnmclean
  14. theprettynerdie reblogged this from reagan-was-a-horrible-president
  15. idlnmclean reblogged this from realworldnews
  16. homer42 reblogged this from kayleemb
  17. kayleemb reblogged this from missalexus
  18. missalexus reblogged this from almostascoolasbeyonce
  19. darkthoughtsdarkdeeds reblogged this from realworldnews
  20. octopusonrollerskates reblogged this from truth-has-a-liberal-bias
  21. memoriescantwait reblogged this from reagan-was-a-horrible-president
  22. almostascoolasbeyonce reblogged this from redphonebox
  23. realworldnews reblogged this from real-news
  24. real-news reblogged this from reagan-was-a-horrible-president
  25. edpc reblogged this from basedjaysuave
  26. recall-all-republicans reblogged this from reagan-was-a-horrible-president