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President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden exchange points during the first presidential debate Sept. 29, 2020, at Case Western University and Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland, Ohio. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, Pool, File)
Jennifer Schulze writes, "The “don’t debate” voices are being crowded out by Trump and the mainstream media, so I think our next best hope is to scrap the normal debate structure and replace it with significantly better guardrails."
Media
OPINION: It’s the same old story as the media shrugs at Trump’s jury intimidation
Jennifer Schulze writes, "The many struggles the media has covering Trump are well documented and are evident yet again with this unprecedented trial."
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Democracy
Virtual ballot goes live to inform Hoosiers
It just got easier for Hoosiers to study who is running in the upcoming May primary. The Indiana Citizen, a nonpartisan news platform, has published its election guide to help make sense of the ...
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Biden
OPINION: A Biden-Trump 2024 presidential debate? Hell no
Jennifer Schulze writes, "Debates are for normal political campaigns. This Biden-Trump race is anything but normal."
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Media
OPINION: There is no ‘War on Easter.’ It’s an outrage campaign fueled with misleading media coverage
Jennifer Schulze writes, "Is this a legitimate “both sides” story with Republicans on one side of an issue and Democrats on the other? Or is it a right-wing disinformation ploy to create manufactured outrage over religious and gender issues in an election year?"
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Democracy
OPINION: One good thing to come out of the Ronna McDaniel-NBC News mess
Jennifer Schulze writes, "I am proud of the journalists who this week stood firmly for the idea that journalism is about the truth."
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Democracy
OPINION: ‘Bloodbath’ prompts renewed media attention to Trump’s violence and vengeance threats. Will it last?
Jennifer Schulze writes, "Instead of seeing this improved coverage as the start of a trend, I think it is more likely that Trump’s use of the word “bloodbath” was simply irresistible. It’s so jarring, even coming from Donald Trump, that journalists and headline writers had no choice but to give it the front-page coverage it deserved."
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Media
OPINION: Why did only one journalist ask key questions about Katie Britt’s SOTU response?
Jennifer Schulze writes, "The best journalists are curious and relentless about asking questions to get to the heart of something. Do they no longer teach this stuff in journalism schools? Because very few journalists had any questions about the Britt speech."
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Elections
OPINION: The news media should speak loudly and often about Mark Robinson being a Hitler-quoting antisemite
Jennifer Schulze writes, "The media is making the same mistake it’s made repeatedly with Donald Trump: minimizing extremism and, in some cases, even ignoring it."
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Abortion
OPINION: The media should point out Republican lies and disinformation about their true IVF stances
Jennfier Schulze writes: "The press is complicit because their first instinct is to print the lies without checking the facts, without providing context, without even the irony that this moment so richly conjures."
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Biden
OPINION: Is The New York Times pro-Trump and anti-Biden? Recent coverage raises some serious questions.
Jennifer Schulze writes: "Because the stakes are so high, we need to call out the biases that have colored the Times’ coverage of the campaign thus far and demand that they do better."
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