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| Subject: Political journalists know nothing, 2020 edition Mon Feb 11, 2019 10:24 pm | |
| Political journalism’s problem of historical illiteracy is as “ catastrophic” as ever, and I don’t think it’s going to get better any time soon. NBC News reporter Marianna Sotomayor stepped in it this weekend when she claimed incorrectly that 2020 would be the first year that more than one woman has run for president in the United States. “For the first time in history, there is more than one female politician running for president. Sen. Klobuchar became the fifth woman to announce today,” she said in a since-deleted tweet.
That's not even close to being true. In 2016, the field of presidential contenders included not just former Democratic Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, but also Republican businesswoman Carly Fiorina and Green Party candidate Jill Stein. It was just a little over three years ago that women in the United States broke the record for most presidential candidates. How easily we forget!
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/political-journalists-know-nothing-2020-edition
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