NewsBusters Explainer Video: How the Media Are Botching Coverage of Georgia’s Election Law (VIDEO)

Newsbusters ^ | April 15th | https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/bill-dagostino/2021/04/15/newsbusters-explainer-video-how-media

[Mount Athos]

TV journalists are carrying water for Democrats by framing the new Georgia election security law as a racist roll-back of voting rights. But they deliberately mislead audiences about the numerous ways in which the bill actually expands voting access in the state.

Watch the video below for a breakdown of how the media are failing in their duty to cover the new law fairly:

Here are some of the most common complaints about the bill you’ll hear from the news media:

■ Claim: The bill restricts ballot drop boxes. Before this bill was passed, Georgia had no law requiring ballot drop boxes anywhere in the state. Thus, the bill actually establishes drop boxes, rather than reducing them. While it’s true that the bill includes an upward limit on how many can be available in the state, this does not represent a reduction.

■ Claim: It creates new voter ID requirements. Voters in Georgia were already required to show ID in order to vote in person. This law simply replaces the outdated (and sometimes inaccurate) practice signature-matching for absentee ballots. Instead, under the new law absentee ballots are verified with a voter’s identification card number. And those cards are provided — for free — to any voter who needs one.

■ Claim: The law makes it illegal to give food or water to voters waiting in line. This change eliminates a loophole in existing Georgia laws against electioneering. In the past, there have been instances in the state of Democrat activists engaging in “line-warming” by handing out freebies to people waiting to vote. This change addresses that, while still allowing vendors to set up food trucks and all manner of refreshments outside polling locations — as long as they’re 150 feet away from the polls.

■ Claim: The bill is designed to make it harder for minorities to vote. This is the most absurd of the bunch. Aside from the media’s (arguably racist) suggestion that it’s unfair to expect people of color to own ID, it’s hard to get anyone to explain how this bill even targets minorities. That’s probably because it doesn’t. Obviously there is no provision in the bill that references race, or even alludes to it.

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[Mount Athos]

Video is found on the article page link at

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/bill-dagostino/2021/04/15/newsbusters-explainer-video-how-media-are-botching-coverage

[Mount Athos]

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[Bratch]

“Botching” implies they’re making mistakes.

They’re not. They’re producing propaganda to advance the Leftist narrative. Knowingly. Deliberately.

Saying they’re “botching” it gives them an out.

[Liz]

Saying the MSM is “botching” gives them an out.“Botching” implies they’re making mistakes.
They’re not. MSM is producing propaganda to advance the Leftist narrative. Knowingly. Deliberately.

Excellent take......deserves a repeat.

[mewzilla]

The enemedia isn’t botching anything.

It’s doing exactly what it’s intending to do: inciting racial divisions while keeping the conversation away from the software issues.

[SaveFerris]

winner - saved me from having to say it

[Liz]

Ever since Stacy Abrams became (cough) governor, Georgia has gone to hell in a handbasket.

CASE IN POINT The bogus investigation launched by Georgia’s Secy of State Raffensberger alleging Trump demanded Raff/sperger
interfere and change the result of Georgia’s Presidential election........ was based on one big fat LIE concocted by his Deputy appointee.

Georgia Deputy Secy of State Jordan Fuchs was the source of fake Trump quotes. NOTE Fuchs was appointed by Secy of State Brad Raffensperger.

We oughta waterboard the lying bish.....find out who she colluded with.

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Prof Di Dongsheng and China "friend."

At a Nov 28, 2020 panel in Shanghai, Prof Di Dongsheng, mused over the narcissism endemic to Western elites
(the Biden Crime Family, Cong Swallwell, GA Secy of State Raffensberger who spoke Mandarin to hit up Chinese donors)
and the ease to which they are brought under the spell of the Communist People’s Republic.

CCP operatives (w/ hidden agendas) reported on their efforts to conscript “prominent Americans and institutions”
who were even willing to work against the interests of their own country.

The professor related his own triumphs as a CCP operative in recruiting new and useful American “friends.”

The professor said, America’s prominent pols fell easily to China’s leveraging of insatiable Western appetites for power, influence, and money.

NOTE Prof Di Dongsheng is Vice Dean of the School of International Relations at Renmin University (the school for children of the CCP elite).

[jdsteel]

You spelled “lying” wrong. It’s not spelled “b o t c h e d”.

[Renkluaf]

Botching implies a mistake. This is intentional.

[KobraKai]

Our side keeps assuming the left is dumb.

[maddog55]

What’s pathetic is the conservative and republican’s inability to market their ideas to the public.

They’re behind on every issue and are always playing catch up.

They need to be out in front on every issue and be able to tackle them head on.

[Roccus]

Please explain to me WHO it is that is supposed to be “on our side?”

[glimmerman70]

Was simple.. they cheated and changed the laws illegally like other states did. We saw the video of them pulling boxes of ballots out in the dead of night. The media just said debunked. They refuse to cover it but instead cover it up.

[JewishRighter]

“Botching” Suggests mistakes and/or incompetence. The media is not making mistakes. They are deliberately propagandizing.

[JewishRighter]

DOH! should have read your post.