Election 2024 Lies: Money Media Misses the Mark (Meet the BIPOC Press Series)

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As Election 2024 unfolds amid a collapsing media landscape, experts explore how BIPOC outlets are combating misinformation and seizing the opportunity to redefine news coverage

¿Podrían las elecciones 2024 ser una oportunidad para que nuevos medios construyan poder? Únete a Laura Flanders y Kadia Tubman mientras exploran este tema con Imara Jones y Lara Witt.

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Description: Election 2024 is happening in a media environment unlike any other. With legacy papers closing and digital media in crisis, too, election ads are filling the news vacuum with misinformation and lies. What is to be done? In this episode of “Meet the BIPOC Press”, co-hosts Laura Flanders and Kadia Tubman of the Scripps News Network examine the state of election media and ask, could this be a moment of opportunity for others to transform the news and build power? Our guest Lara Witt is the editor-in-chief of Prism and co-founder of the new Movement Media Alliance and Media Against Apartheid & Displacement. Joining us again is Emmy and Peabody award-winning journalist Imara Jones, creator of TransLash Media, a cross-platform journalism project created to save trans lives and expose threats to democracy. The gripping new season of “The Anti-Trans Hate Machine” podcast dives into the extremist groups using transphobia to stoke political violence. Find out how BIPOC media are meeting this moment and working to cover the issues that mainstream media have largely ignored.

“There's not one single trans analyst or contributor on any of the cable networks, even though trans issues are front and center as a mainstream political issue, not as a marginal political issue.” - Imara Jones

“. . . People are getting their political information from [campaign] ads because they're likely not getting it from a reliable source. Since August, we know it's been reported that Republicans have invested over $65 million in anti-trans TV ads alone, and some of those talking points in those ads are actually coming from dubious sources . . .” - Kadia Tubman

“We very much are invested in ensuring that our communities are safe, that folks can live their lives as fully autonomous beings and mainstream media often just misses that or doesn't care . . .” - Lara Witt

Guests:

• Imara Jones: CEO, TransLash Media; Podcast- The Anti-Trans Hate Machine.

•. Lara Witt: Editor-in-Chief, Prism. Movement Media Alliance

•. Kadia Tubman (Co-host): Disinformation Correspondent, Scripps News

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Music In the Middle: “Propaganda” by Salami Rose Joe Louis feat. Brijean, from her album Akousmatakous released on Love Da Records. And additional music included- "Steppin" by Podington Bear.

Related Laura Flanders Show Episodes:

•. Imara Jones: Countering The Anti-Trans Hate Machine, Watch / Podcast

•. Democracy Under Siege: Battling Disinformation in the 2024 Election: Watch / Podcast + Uncut Conversation

•. Meet the BIPOC Press: Is Worker-Owned Media the Future of Journalism?: Watch / Podcast

Related Articles and Resources:

• Columbia Journalism Review: The Decline of Local News Has Become a Campaign Problem, by Jake Lahut, September 24, 2024, Columbia Journalism Review

• The Guardian: TV giant known for rightwing disinformation doubles down on its national news agenda, by Eric Berger, July 2, 2024, The Guardian

• Right-wing propaganda infiltrates local news stations as 2024 Election ramps up, June 12, 2024, MSNBC

•. TransLash Presents: Capturing The New York Times, July 20, 2024, TransLash Podcast

•. This Election Season, We Need Tools for Media Literacy More Than Ever, by Lara Witt, Maya Schenwar, Aysha Khan, Joshua Potash, PRISM, June 8, 2024, TruthOut

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