For Jay Rosen, media critic and author of PressThink, Joe Biden and Donald Trump's dueling town halls this week summed up a problem news organizations have failed to address since the 2016 election: conventions of political journalism aren't useful anymore, because Trump is an utterly unconventional president. Rosen's solution? News organizations need to orient themselves toward values like democracy and the pursuit of truth, rather than convention.
In this conversation with Brooke, Rosen explains why he thinks journalism needs to switch to an "emergency" setting, how electoral coverage has changed in some ways and stagnated in others since 2016, and the need to center the voter in political journalism.
This is a segment from our October 16, 2020 program, Emergency Mode.
