Ari Berman on the State of Voting 2018, Jackie Prange on Keystone XL Re-Review

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Voters in Philadelphia, 2016 (photo: Voice of America)

(photo: Voice of America)

This week on CounterSpin: Elections highlight corporate news media’s partisan prism—the insistence on reading things preeminently in terms of what they mean for the “fortunes” of one major party or the other, and calling a good story one that lets them trade claims. But as one of the key times people visibly engage with power, there’s hardly a time more important than elections for media to stop splitting the difference and frankly describe the impact of elections—not just the outcomes, but the processes—on people and their ability to have a say in their circumstances. We’ll talk about what the 2018 midterms told us about voting in this country with Ari Berman, a senior reporter at Mother Jones and author most recently of Give Us The Ballot: The Modern Struggle For VOting Rights in America, out now in paperback.

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Keystone XL protest, 2011 (cc photo: Elvert Barnes)

(cc photo: Elvert Barnes)

Also on the show: “In a setback for the Trump administration, a federal judge has blocked a permit for construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada and ordered officials to conduct a new environmental review.” That’s AP‘s lead on a story about a US district judge’s ruling that the Trump White House was not within bounds to simply ignore years of data on the impact of the Keystone extension on the climate, indigenous communities and endangered species in summarily scrapping Obama’s veto on pipeline construction. AP‘s not wrong that the decision is a setback for Trump’s agenda, but when life itself is a factor in a news event, you’d hope reporters would now and again make it the subject of a sentence. We’ll talk about what the ruling on Keystone XL could mean, short term and long term, with Jackie Prange, senior attorney and managing litigator with the Natural Resources Defense Council.

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This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News with permission from FAIR.