Most of the anti-Trump media have endorsed the argument of leftist New York University professor Jay Rosen that “horse race” coverage of the 2024 election is trivial and should be shelved in favor of full-blown panic about the stakes of a second term for President Trump. In other words, the media must engage in incessant fear-mongering about democracy dying in darkness if Republicans win.
As polls often show Biden behind Trump now, Associated Press media reporter David Bauder recently promoted this Rosen thesis and the recent issue of The Atlantic dedicated to scaring everyone into voting for Biden.
“The stakes are high,” said David Halbfinger, politics editor at The New York Times. “We saw on Jan. 6 of 2021, when we cover politics, we don’t just cover elections. We cover democracy now. Everybody has to take their jobs seriously, and it’s good to…