{"id":271310,"date":"2013-06-27T18:28:26","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T18:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/06\/27\/on-wendy-davis-filibuster-and-in-a-way-on\/"},"modified":"2013-06-27T18:28:26","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T18:28:26","slug":"on-wendy-davis-filibuster-and-in-a-way-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/06\/27\/on-wendy-davis-filibuster-and-in-a-way-on\/","title":{"rendered":"On Wendy Davis&#8217; filibuster (and, in a way, on DOMA), social media showed mainstream news what it couldn&#8217;t ignore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2013\/06\/26\/when_twitter_does_what_journalism_cant\/'>On Wendy Davis&#8217; filibuster (and, in a way, on DOMA), social media showed mainstream news what it couldn&#8217;t ignore<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>When these major news stories are breaking, there\u2019s always a significant difference between what\u2019s being shared via social media and what major news outlets are covering. That difference becomes more pronounced and more pathetic with each passing day.<\/p>\n<p>Good journalism takes time that social media, which advances at a breathtaking pace, rarely affords. Good journalists need to verify information before they can report it. They need this time because, in the best of all worlds, we\u2019re supposed to trust that they are offering us accurate, unbiased information. But even after they\u2019ve applied the necessary rigor to their profession, journalists from major news outlets still seem like they can\u2019t keep up \u2014 or, perhaps, it\u2019s that they won\u2019t keep up.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, June 25, Sen. Wendy Davis stood and fought for reproductive freedom in her state and the networks were largely silent. MSNBC offered some coverage earlier in the evening, but during the last few hours, the news networks, the 24-hour news networks created for this very purpose, were silent. They reported inaccurate information when they bothered to report at all. The next morning, CNN anchor Chris Cuomo\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/media\/2013\/06\/26\/2216321\/cnn-host-dismisses-texas-abortion-filibuster-why-not-spend-the-time-trying-to-compromise\/\" target=\"_blank\">referred<\/a>\u00a0to the efforts of Davis and Texas men and women who held vigil with her as \u201codd politics at work,\u201d and before that suggested, \u201cWhy not spend the time trying to compromise and figure out the bill in the first place?\u201d as if reproductive freedom is simply a matter of compromise. He was dismissive and negligent, a frustrating combination of incompetence.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wendy Davis&#8217; filibuster (and, in a way, on DOMA), social media showed mainstream news what it couldn&#8217;t ignore When these major news stories are breaking, there\u2019s always a significant difference between what\u2019s being shared via social media and what major news outlets are covering. That difference becomes more pronounced and more pathetic with each &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/06\/27\/on-wendy-davis-filibuster-and-in-a-way-on\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On Wendy Davis&#8217; filibuster (and, in a way, on DOMA), social media showed mainstream news what it couldn&#8217;t ignore&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}