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   NewsBusters media editor Bill D'Agostino said, 'The media are   
   intentionally missing the point here'   
      
   A new video from a conservative media watchdog charges that the   
   press is lying to the public about the debate over election laws   
   as Democrats seek to push through sweeping voting legislation.   
      
   "The media are lying to you about elections," NewsBusters media   
   editor Bill D'Agostino said in his latest video combining news   
   clips and commentary about the press. "And they have been for   
   about a year now."   
      
   D'Agostino argued the "big lie" from the liberal press boiled   
   down to the ubiquitous use of the term "voting rights" in press   
   coverage of Democratic election legislation and suggesting those   
   rights were being curtailed by Republicans. For instance, he   
   said, CBS anchor Norah O'Donnell's use of the term "rolling back   
   voter rights" in a tease to describe proposed Republican state   
   laws last year was dishonest. In another instance, he quoted   
   MSNBC host Joy Reid fretting over "the big lie's corrosive   
   effect on voting rights."   
      
   LIBERALS PROCLAIM MIDTERM SUCCESS BY GOP COULD SPELL END OF   
   DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA   
      
   President Biden and Democrats are currently pushing two   
   expansive, progressive bills that would overhaul U.S. voting   
   elections and procedures, which Republicans have argued would be   
   an unconstitutional usurpation of states' rights. Biden and   
   media allies have framed the debate in stark terms, saying   
   democracy is at stake, with the former even comparing foes of   
   the legislation to segregationists.   
      
   D'Agostino said no GOP voting laws implemented over the past   
   year, such as Georgia's election reform that Biden said was akin   
   to modern-day Jim Crow, had curbed anyone's right to vote.   
   Instead, he said things like voter ID laws, cutting down on   
   pandemic-era dropboxes and decreasing the absentee ballot   
   application period – which MSNBC said was all part of Georgia's   
   "voter suppression" law – were demonized in the media even   
   though they didn't infringe on actual voting rights.   
      
   "The media are intentionally missing the point here," D'Agostino   
   said. "Making voting slightly less convenient isn't even the   
   goal of these laws. It's just an unavoidable byproduct. Again,   
   the goal is security."   
      
   MSNBC'S AL SHARPTON: BIDEN'S VOTING ADDRESS WAS A ‘YOU’RE GOING   
   TO HELL' SPEECH, NOT A VOTE-GETTING ONE   
      
   He accused the press of framing the debate over voting as one   
   between bad Republicans trying to dismantle voting rights and   
   good Democrats preserving them, and played examples of the press   
   promoting the latter's bills.   
      
   "This is a self-inflicted death blow to their credibility … The   
   brazen lying has to stop," he said.   
      
   American Enterprise Institute senior fellow Kevin Kosar told Fox   
   News Digital that Democratic rhetoric around election laws had   
   led to a "toxic conversation" and it was wrong for the press to   
   depict Republicans as stomping out ballot access out of fealty   
   to former President Trump and his continued stolen election   
   claims.   
      
   "It's instantly polarizing when you frame something as for   
   voting rights or against them," he said. "Last I checked, there   
   is nobody campaigning to enact legislation to abolish anybody's   
   voting rights or even to make it particularly difficult to vote,   
   and that's where when you dig past the rhetoric and look at the   
   changes in voting laws, a lot of it is extremely incrementalist   
   and not objectionable."   
      
   Fox News contributor and progressive radio host Leslie Marshall   
   said framing the debate as being about voting rights was   
   "absolutely" the right thing for the media to do, however.   
      
   "When you look at polling and focus groups, they show that if   
   you state Republicans are trying to take away your right to   
   vote, it's more effective in messaging as a direct warning than   
   talking about defending democracy," she said. "I don't think   
   that voting rights is the wrong phrase because that's exactly   
   what these two pieces [address]."   
      
      
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