(We always blame the media – promoted by Colorado Pols)
It’s easy to complain about journalism among friends. But what do you get out of it? Echoes or silence.
Here’s a chance to talk back to the media directly. On Tuesday, a panel of top local journalists will discuss the highs and lows of media coverage of the 2014 election—and take questions from the audience.
The panel features Shaun Boyd, Political Specialist, CBS4, Peter Marcus, Denver Correspondent, Durango Herald, Chuck Plunkett, Politics Editor, The Denver Post, Nicholas Riccardi, Western Political Reporter, Associated Press, and Eli Stokols, Political Reporter, Fox 31 Denver.
Any question about local news coverage of the election is fair game. Why so few stories about Bob Beauprez’s wild birther ideas? Were John Hickenlooper’s gaffes underplayed? Did reporters allow senatorial candidate Cory Gardner to bury his Tea Party past? What about Benghazi, ISIS, and Obama?
The panel will cover the spectrum of opinions in part because moderators come from the left and right on the political spectrum: Kelly Maher is director of the conservative Compass Colorado, and yours truly is a progressive blogger.
The event takes place Tuesday, Nov. 11, from 7:30-9 a.m. at 1380 Lawrence Street in the 2nd-floor Terrace Room.
It’s free, and even includes coffee and continental breakfast. Doors open at 7:30 a.m. and the discussion runs from 7:45 – 9 a.m. Please RSVP to tips @bigmedia.org. You can also email questions, if you don’t want to ask them yourself.
Paul Teske, Dean of University of Colorado Denver’s School of Public Affairs, will offer introductory remarks. UCD’s School of Public Affairs is sponsoring the event, along with BigMedia.org and Compass Colorado.
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I wouldn't say it's the media's "fault" but they aren't true to facts and issues. It's the "fault" of citizens who take the mainstream media at face value without doing a little checking.
I went to this one year and it was really interesting.
Maybe someone can ask Plunkett why the Post was so obviously in the tank for Gardner from day one and why that useless rag of a paper does not even attempt to separate its "journalism" (always pro-Republican, especially from the state capitol reporters) from its editorial opinion.
Maybe Plunkett could also be asked why the paper never covered Wayne Williams' antics in El Paso county, Cynthia Coffman's far-right social policy preferences, or the actual evidence of Walker Stapleton's physical presence in his office once in a while.
Oh, yes, and how about why it never dropped a microgram of ink on writing about that fanatic in Colorado Springs, Klingenshit . . . oops, I mean Klingenschmitt. You know, the demon-hunting pretend-sailor boy who exorcised the President.
Let's make it easy, why not just ask Plunkett when he plans on leaving to join FOX/KochAmerica?
Yes, I would like to ask all of them why these stories were ignored.
A: No, it's the Fucking Democrats' fault.
I have a question for the press ppl:
1. Do they feel "both sides do it"? Where "do it" is use similar rhetoric, similar amount of truth v. non-truth, similar references to history, common definitions of political words, etc…..?
2. How do reporters feel when politicians explain things away by saying "both sides do it"?
I can't attend – will someone be taking video or sound?
A completely serious question for the entire panel, one that I would like to hear answered:
Given the large amount of misreporting (of candidates positions, candidates records, and candidates statements, etc.) this past cycle, how much longer do you think the public will continue to tolerate this from so-called "professional journalists"?
Follow up: What do you think that the public can, and should, do to demand a return of accurate and fact-checked political reporting?
Truth tests by TV media outlets were probably widely anticipated, & welcomed. Yet, to a fairly astute viewer as myself, found truth tests to be convoluted, open ended with vague conclusions. Furthermore, to find the same truth tests further parsed and inserted into later in the cycle ads, was disconcerting. Doesn't the local station have a vested interest in copyrighting or otherwise limiting the use ?
Why wouldn't you have this at 7:30 am on a weekday? Perfect time to nail that nothing-to-do-but-be-retired-and-vote-Republican demo we're all chasing.
/rolleyes