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"content": "<p>There will come a time, maybe even in the next few days, <br />when at least some of our top newsroom leaders will acknowledge the growing mountain of evidence before them <br />and reach the obvious conclusion that Donald Trump’s actions have precipitated a full-fledged constitutional crisis.<br />They will recognize that through his unconstitutional executive orders, <br />his rampant law-breaking, <br />and (new!) his defiance of court orders, <br />he is acting as if he alone is the government. <br />And they will see how the other branches are either unwilling or unable to restrain him.<br />Assuming they are not immediately fired by their corporate bosses for insubordination, <br />they will then call a <a href=\"https://c.im/tags/staff\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>staff</span></a> <a href=\"https://c.im/tags/meeting\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>meeting</span></a> or send out a <a href=\"https://c.im/tags/memo\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>memo</span></a>, to share their conclusion.<br />But what then? <br />What will those newsrooms start to do differently❓<br />I hope our top journalists have thought this through already, but I fear they have not.<br />As it happens, I have some ideas.<br />The first essential step is to fully and intentionally go into crisis mode. <br />💥That means constant, round-the-clock, top-of-the-homepage coverage until the crisis is resolved.<br /><a href=\"https://c.im/tags/Oliver\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Oliver</span></a> <a href=\"https://c.im/tags/Darcy\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Darcy</span></a>, in his media newsletter <a href=\"https://c.im/tags/Status\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Status</span></a>, did a marvelous job last week of describing what the media’s response to Trump’s actions should be. <br />“Think about how it covers natural disasters and terror attacks,” he wrote. <br />✅“It’s time to break out those six-column front page headlines and interrupt regular programming with special broadcast news reports.”<br />Crisis coverage requires clarity and focus: <br />💥During a crisis, you don’t argue about whether there is a crisis or not. You focus on getting through it.<br />Crisis coverage also requires a dramatic change in language. <br />✅No more euphemisms and passive voice. It’s time for strong words and active verbs.<br />It requires authoritative reporting. <br />✅No splitting the difference between two sources when one of them is misinformed or deliberately misleading. Accurate information is essential in a crisis.<br />It requires big-picture thinking: <br />✅What are the consequences of this crisis? Who will it affect and how?<br />It requires profiles of the victims.<br />It calls for regular assessments of the response. <br />Who’s helping? Who’s hurting? Who’s proposing solutions? <br />Whose ideas are just making it worse?<br />✅It requires digging into the motives of the people who are making it worse.<br />And this is minor, but it necessitates calling things by their name: <br />Bold rubrics like “Democracy in Crisis” or “America Under Siege” <br />— not “Trump Administration.”<br />Identifying something as a crisis is the opposite of accepting it as the new normal <br />— and that’s entirely the point. <br />🔥This can’t become the new normal. Our democracy won’t survive<br /><a href=\"https://presswatchers.org/2025/02/step-one-acknowledge-the-constitutional-crisis-whats-step-two/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" translate=\"no\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://</span><span class=\"ellipsis\">presswatchers.org/2025/02/step</span><span class=\"invisible\">-one-acknowledge-the-constitutional-crisis-whats-step-two/</span></a></p>",
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