We demand fair and equal media coverage of candidates for the 2020 election. It is the job of journalists to provide voters with the information they need to make educated decisions. It is not their job to influence our decisions, skew the information or limit the scope of information presented by selecting which candidates or events they will (or will not) cover.
Why is this important?
Throughout its coverage of the 2016 elections journalists dictated the information we received based on stories that would generate the most sales revenue. This resulted in a lack of information about the candidates and their positions on topics that actually mattered, an unbalanced amount of reporting on the candidates, and an obsessive focus on specially selected topics.
Journalists wrote more about the Clinton- email scandal than all of Trump’s scandals combined. They commented on who had the best chance of winning and what the general public was saying about each candidate rather than reporting on candidates proposed policies.
