"It would be helpful to note in this tweet that the Republican messaging is not accurate."......
I do not know what the original tweet was but they must have gotten lots of feedback.
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It would be helpful to note in this tweet that the Republican messaging is not accurate. The story mentions this 'misinformation' in the second paragraph.
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We have deleted an earlier tweet to this story that did not clarify that some of the Republicans' claims on late-term abortions are false or misleading, context that is provided in the article.
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Republicans’ Messaging on Abortion Puts Democrats on the Defensive
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/16/us/politics/abortion-republicans-democrats.html?smid=tw-nytpolitics&smtyp=cur
Abortion opponents protested outside of the capitol in Richmond, Va., last month.CreditSteve Helber/Associated Press
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Abortion opponents protested outside of the capitol in Richmond, Va., last month.CreditCreditSteve Helber/Associated Press
By Jeremy W. Peters
May 16, 2019
WASHINGTON — With grisly claims that Democrats promote “birth day abortions” and are “the party of death,” the Republican Party and its conservative allies have aggressively reset the terms of one of the country’s most divisive and emotionally fraught debates, forcing Democrats to reassess how they should respond to attacks and distortions that portray the entire party as extremist on abortion.
The unusually forceful, carefully coordinated campaign has created challenges that Democrats did not expect as they struggle to combat misinformation and thwart further efforts to undercut access to abortion. And advocates of abortion rights fear it is succeeding in pressuring lawmakers in more conservative states to pass severe new restrictions, as Alabama did this week by approving a bill that would essentially outlaw the procedure.
These new measures, combined with the likelihood that the Supreme Court will agree to take up at least one case in the coming months where Roe v. Wade will be tested, have stirred intense passions on both sides and elevated abortion into a prominent issue in the presidential race.
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Much to the distress of abortion rights supporters, their own polling is showing that the right’s message is penetrating beyond the social conservatives who make up a large part of the Republican base. Surveys conducted for progressive groups in recent weeks found that more than half of Americans were aware of the “infanticide” claims that President Trump and his party have started making when describing abortions that occur later in pregnancy.
Initially, many Democrats and abortion rights groups believed the notion was so absurd that it was not worth responding to it. But they discovered that was a dangerous assumption to make in an information environment dominated by Mr. Trump.........................
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without any mention of the role of the media, such as the new york times.
just to "objectively" cover "facts" like those, i guess. as if the media didn't play into the right-wing's "forceful, carefully coordinated campaign".
why on earth wouldn't an objective news source take a disinformation campaign as an attack on *the media* and respond accordingly? why put it on democrats to respond? why wouldn't the media say *the media* is struggling with how to cover the debate when the right wing is waging a misinformation campaign?
yes, when the right-wing wages a disinformation campaign and the media just rolls over and parrots whatever disinformation they feel like dishing out and then merely gives democrats time for a partisan response, yes, democrats struggle with how to respond.
