It will likely be months until pollsters can study this year’s misses thoroughly (a comprehensive study came roughly six months after the 2016 election). However, for now, pollsters have some educated guesses about what may have thrown polls off.
Why Were The Polls Off? Pollsters Have Some Early Theories : NPR
Defund pollsters. Fund local media.
Writers and editors say the industry sorely lacks disability representation, even as COVID-19 pushes disability-rights topics like accessibility and mail-in voting to the forefront.
How COVID-19 exposes a disability reporting gap – Poynter
It matters.
Though it’s difficult to quantify the effect of declining local news coverage on our capacity to monitor infectious disease, it’s clear that local information is best positioned to prevent outbreaks. “A pandemic starts at the local level,” Madoff says. “The closer you can get to identifying a cluster and outbreak at its origin, the better. The further you get from the local, the bigger an outbreak needs to be before it gets noticed or picked up and the more likely it is to spread.”
The decline of local newsrooms could make it harder for us to detect the next disease outbreak – Columbia Journalism Review
Thank you, Facebook.
Beyond the digital comic catalog of more than 24,000 titles spanning eight decades, DC Universe Infinite will also feature a fan community available to all subscribers, with events planned through 2021. Existing DC Universe subscriptions will transfer over to DC Universe Infinite.
DC Universe Rebranding as Comics-Centric Platform | Hollywood Reporter
This makes a ton of sense, since what the comics world is missing right now is a well-moderated community for discussion etc, as well as for the fact that H. BoMax was siphoning off all the series.
A new study released Tuesday has found that increased representation in movies in terms of casting choices drives movie attendance, even if the portrayals are negative.
Study: Onscreen Diversity Boosts Movie Attendance – Even When Portrayal Is Negative
matters
PMC will lead daily operations of an expanded entertainment and music brand portfolio under the PMRC banner that will bring two Hollywood trade institutions under the same roof for the first time. Billboard, Vibe and the Reporter will join PMC’s Variety, Rolling Stone and Music Business Worldwide.
PMC to Operate Billboard, Hollywood Reporter and Vibe With MRC – Variety
Seems like a fine turn of events, no one should be concerned at all.
what qualifies as objectivity is in the eye of the beholder, and that eye is still predominantly male and white.
Objectivity isn’t a magic wand – Columbia Journalism Review
Facebook was never going to put any weight behind this, it was just meant to do “something” to placate publishers.
Source: Six months in, Facebook News remains a question mark to publishers – Digiday
I hope some enterprising filmmakers are out there capturing footage for use in future “end of the world and humanity has vanished” movies.
Source: What the world looks like when humans stay home | PBS NewsHour
If there’s a single issue, it’s that so much of the coverage has come from the political beat, when what we needed – and still need – is coverage from the health beat. Too bad so much of that has been hollowed out of various outlets.
Source: What went wrong with the media’s coronavirus coverage? – Vox
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