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The media can’t figure out how to cover Harris’ race, still struggles with Trump’s lies [1]

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Date: 2024-09-23 10:00:12+00:00

There are just six weeks to go until the U.S. presidential election. One candidate — former President Donald Trump — has vexed reporters since he became a major political figure almost a decade ago. Another — Vice President Kamala Harris — has only been in the running for two months.

How is the news media doing with its coverage of these two?

“I think the mainstream media is still struggling in a lot of ways — with two historic candidates,” says Eric Deggans, NPR’s TV critic.

In the premier episode of “The Poynter Report Podcast,” Deggans and Poynter senior media writer Tom Jones, the host of the podcast, break down the media’s speedbumps in covering Trump and Harris. Not only are journalists still struggling to cover Trump’s lies, Deggans argues, they can’t figure out how to contextualize Harris’ identity as both a Black woman and Indian American woman.

The back half of the episode features observations about CNN’s decline, a dissection of the consumer confusion around the many streaming services, and canny predictions about the future of “Saturday Night Live,” including Deggans’ thoughts about a potential successor to executive producer Lorne Michaels.

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