The national prestige press proclaim the dangers of “misinformation” in this election and how our democracy is too important for voters to be misinformed, or “mis-influenced.” But you can sense that what they mean is Republican arguments are inherently false, and must be rebutted. This is the task of “journalism.”
On the first night of the Democrat convention, the PBS News Hour brought on their Monday night pundits, election prognosticator Amy Walter and NPR White House correspondent Tamara Keith. When the voters are misinformed in favor of the Democrats, that is an opportunity, not democracy in peril.
Walter cited a new Washington Post poll that found “part of the reason Harris is doing as well as she is that she’s not seen as part of the Biden legacy. In other words, she’s not as closely tied to decisions that the Biden administration…
