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Obama Urges Journalists to Cover the Substance of the Campaign
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U.S. president Obama on the state of journalism and the media in 2016- how it "corrodes our democracy and our society"
03/28/2016
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Obama calls for more facts, fewer insults in speech to journalists - The Washington Post
Washington Post 03/29/2016
Obama Urges Journalists to Cover the Substance of the Campaign
New York Times 03/28/2016
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Final Debate: Donald Trump Declines to Commit to Respecting Results if He Loses
WSJ 10/20/2016
The New York Times 11/07/2016
National Public Radio's (NPR) interview with U.S. president Obama in Dec. 2015 on his views on the white working class, Trump, and the war in Syria and Iraq
12/21/2015
U.S. president Obama says again that his approach in Syria and Iraq is working, without mentioning the millions of refugees and the refugee crisis in Europe, in an interview with National Public Radio. He says that Trump is exploiting working class white discontent about poor economic prospects, without mentioning the slipping economic condition of large parts of what was the middle class revealed in figures on median income and net assets, including by Janet Yellen at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston conference on inequality in October 2014. At that conference one of the alarming figures cited was that the average net worth of the lower half of Americans representing 62 million households was $11,000 in 2013.
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Obama Accuses Trump of Exploiting Working-Class Fears
New York Times 12/21/2015
The ‘hollowing’ of the middle class? - The Washington Post
Washington Post 01/04/2016
Obama Urges Journalists to Cover the Substance of the Campaign
New York Times 03/28/2016
Trump Rhetoric Poses Dangers to American Democracy - SPIEGEL ONLINE
SPIEGEL ONLINE 10/19/2016
How the media created the Trump surge- $1.9 billion in media coverage according to the Times, a lack of proper vetting of the candidate, and missing the plight of struggling working class voters
03/26/2016
The media may have also made the mistake of thinking the Trump candidacy would fade, that it was some kind of television publicity move. Other reasons played a part- the fragmentation in the vote with many candidates, the lack of candidates who could seriously connect with voter anxiety about security, drugs, uncertainty about jobs, Trump's experience as a television personality simplifying issues with slogans. The media reflection comes in March 2016 with a series of wins by Trump in southern and midwestern states. Journalists like Tom Brokaw feel stymied by the change in attitudes of viewers who did not take vetting seriously when he tried, and veteran journalist Bob Schieffer also sees a change in attitudes. Voters seemed to be sending a message about the disconnect with them of the elites. The whole process dragged down civility and values in public life with the deterioration in the campaigning to very low levels by March 2016, leaving the media a lot to reflect on and correct.
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My Shared Shame: The Media Helped Make Trump
New York Times 03/26/2016
Wall Street Journal 03/28/2016
Obama calls for more facts, fewer insults in speech to journalists - The Washington Post
Washington Post 03/29/2016
Obama Urges Journalists to Cover the Substance of the Campaign
New York Times 03/28/2016
In defense of the GOP - The Washington Post
Washington Post 04/15/2016
Softening on Trump? Remember this. - The Washington Post
Washington Post 04/23/2016
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