The Political Reporter's Dilemma

What the political reporter faces in covering political actors who are systematically deceptive

The Dilemma

The political reporter faces the specific dilemma that covering systematically deceptive political actors produces: the journalistic norm of quoting the political actor and balancing their account against critics produces a specific false equivalence when the political actor is saying things that are documentably false. The political reporter who quotes the false statement and adds a correction produces a different story than the reporter who leads with the correction and treats the false statement as evidence of a problem.

The Response

The response that the journalism profession has developed to systematic political deception: the fact-checking genre, which examines specific political statements against the available evidence; the accountability journalism that focuses on the gap between statements and actions rather than the statements alone; and the specific editorial standards that some publications have developed for covering political actors whose documented deception rate is above some threshold.

JournoNews Coverage

JournoNews covers the political reporter dilemma because the accountability journalism of political coverage requires examining the norms that political reporting applies to political actors who are systematically deceptive, and because the standards that apply in normal political coverage may not apply at the same coverage quality when the political actor being covered is operating outside the norms that political coverage assumes.

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