This election season, will media learn from past mistakes?

An election rematch between Joe Biden and Donald Trump became
official after the two clinched the nominations for their
respective parties this week. Media outlets have experience
reporting on the two of them, but the stakes seem higher this
time around. Will covering 2024 like a traditional election
create the same pitfalls journalists have fallen for in the past?


Some of the flaws the media will have to confront were on full
display following Special Counsel Robert Hur’s congressional
testimony. The amount of focus on Hur’s assessment of Biden’s
memory overshadowed coverage of the report and its accompanying
transcripts. Our panel shares the issues they saw with the
hearing.


New York Governor Kathy Hocul proposed several new plans for
addressing public safety in New York City’s massive transit
system. One proposal included sending 1,000 National Guard
members and state troopers into the subway to check passengers’
bags. Hocul said the decision wasn’t based on rising crime
numbers, but on the perception that the subway had become unsafe
for everyday riders. Is it a smart political move to rely on
perception to create a policy? And how does it highlight the
hypocrisy in responses to similar proposals in 2020?