{"id":310,"date":"2020-11-14T16:56:29","date_gmt":"2020-11-14T16:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/?page_id=310"},"modified":"2020-11-14T16:56:31","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T16:56:31","slug":"what-do-news-audiences-think-about-cutting-away-from-news-that-could-contain-misinformation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2020\/section-4-news-and-journalism\/what-do-news-audiences-think-about-cutting-away-from-news-that-could-contain-misinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"What do news audiences think about \u2018cutting away\u2019 from news that could contain misinformation?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:25%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"453\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/Richard_Fletcher_bw.png?resize=453%2C453&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/Richard_Fletcher_bw.png?w=453&amp;ssl=1 453w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/Richard_Fletcher_bw.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/Richard_Fletcher_bw.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/Richard_Fletcher_bw.png?resize=60%2C60&amp;ssl=1 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 453px) 100vw, 453px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"US204bio\"><strong>Richard Fletcher<\/strong><br><br>Senior Research Fellow, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford<br><br><em>Email: richard.fletcher@politics.ox.ac.uk<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"308\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/US20_divider_4_news.png?resize=400%2C308&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/US20_divider_4_news.png?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/US20_divider_4_news.png?resize=300%2C231&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<h5 class=\"US204\"> Section 4: News and journalism<\/h5>\n<div class=\"page-list\"><ul class=\"list-group-item\"><li class=\"page_item page-item-274\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2020\/section-4-news-and-journalism\/when-journalisms-relevance-is-also-on-the-ballot\/\">When journalism\u2019s relevance is also on the ballot<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-279\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2020\/section-4-news-and-journalism\/beyond-the-horse-race-voting-process-coverage-in-2020\/\">Beyond the horse race: voting process coverage in 2020<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-283\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2020\/section-4-news-and-journalism\/youtube-as-a-space-for-news\/\">YouTube as a space for news<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-290\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2020\/section-4-news-and-journalism\/2020-shows-the-need-for-institutional-news-media-to-make-racial-justice-a-core-value-of-journalism\/\">2020 shows the need for institutional news media to make racial justice a core value of journalism<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-293\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2020\/section-4-news-and-journalism\/newspaper-endorsements-presidential-fitness-and-democracy\/\">Newspaper endorsements, presidential fitness and democracy<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-296\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2020\/section-4-news-and-journalism\/alternative-to-what-a-faltering-alternative-as-independent-media\/\">Alternative to what? A faltering alternative-as-independent media<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-299\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2020\/section-4-news-and-journalism\/collaboration-connections-and-continuity-in-media-innovation\/\">Collaboration, connections, and continuity in media innovation<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-302\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2020\/section-4-news-and-journalism\/learning-from-the-news-in-a-time-of-highly-polarized-media\/\">Learning from the news in a time of highly polarized media<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-307\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2020\/section-4-news-and-journalism\/partisan-media-ecosystems-and-polarization-in-the-2020-u-s-election\/\">Partisan media ecosystems and polarization in the 2020 U.S. election<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-314\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2020\/section-4-news-and-journalism\/the-day-the-music-died-turning-off-the-cameras-on-president-trump\/\">The day the music died: turning off the cameras on President Trump<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-317\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2020\/section-4-news-and-journalism\/when-worlds-collide-contentious-politics-in-a-fragmented-media-regime\/\">When worlds collide: contentious politics in a fragmented media regime<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-321\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2020\/section-4-news-and-journalism\/forecasting-the-future-of-election-forecasting\/\">Forecasting the future of election forecasting<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-325\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2020\/section-4-news-and-journalism\/a-new-horse-race-begins-the-scramble-for-a-post-election-narrative\/\">A new horse race begins: the scramble for a post-election narrative<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:75%\">\n<p>One of the defining moments of the media coverage during the 2020 U.S. presidential election came when several major U.S. TV networks decided to cut away from President Trump\u2019s White House press conference on November 5th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NBC, ABC, and CBS all&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/11\/05\/business\/media\/trump-tv.html\">cut their feeds<\/a>&nbsp;mid-way through Trump\u2019s sixteen-minute speech, taking the decision to stop broadcasting it to their viewers because of concerns over&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/election-us-2020-54837926\">baseless claims<\/a>&nbsp;about election fraud. Other networks, including CNN and Fox, broadcast the whole speech, but reported afterwards that the President had offered no evidence for his accusations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some observers have applauded the decision to cut away, heralding it as the moment when news organisations finally worked out how to deal with false and misleading claims from politicians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But what do&nbsp;news audiences think about \u2018cutting away\u2019 from news that could contain misinformation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before turning to that, we should note that the decision made by some networks to cut away was unusual, and so were the circumstances surrounding it. The stakes were extremely high, journalists suspected in advance that the speech would be used to question the legitimacy of yet-to-be-counted votes, and the President, it seemed, would not be the president for much longer, rendering him somewhat less newsworthy and less powerful. And, last but not least, journalists were covering someone who\u2014according to fact-checkers at the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/graphics\/politics\/trump-claims-database\/\">Washington Post<\/a>\u2014had made over 22,000 false or misleading claims since January 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But this situation is not typical of much day-to-day political reporting. The circumstances are rarely as clear-cut or as heightened, journalists can be caught off guard by what politicians say, real time fact-checking is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk\/our-research\/understanding-promise-and-limits-automated-fact-checking\">very difficult<\/a>, and completely ignoring important politicians cannot always be justified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rather, when reporting on statements from politicians that could be false, journalists often face a difficult choice between some version of: (i) prominently reporting what they say because it is important for the public to know that they said it, or (ii) not emphasising what they say because it would give them unwarranted attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To understand how news audiences think about this dilemma we asked respondents in our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/digitalnewsreport.org\/\">2020 Reuters Institute Digital News Report<\/a>\u2014an annual online survey across 40 different markets\u2014which of the two options above comes closer to their view about what the news media should do when dealing with politicians that have made a statement that could be false?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the U.S., half (50%) said \u201creport the statement prominently because it is important for the public to know what the politician said\u201d comes closer to their view (see Figure 1), with only 22% selecting \u201cnot emphasise the statement because it would give the politician unwarranted attention\u201d (the remaining 28% said \u201cDon\u2019t know\u201d). (Importantly, we might expect this preference for reporting to be even stronger if statements are reported&nbsp;<em>as false\u2014<\/em>but as said, this is not always possible.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"648\" height=\"330\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/richard_fletcher_figure_1.png?resize=648%2C330&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/richard_fletcher_figure_1.png?resize=1024%2C521&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/richard_fletcher_figure_1.png?resize=300%2C153&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/richard_fletcher_figure_1.png?resize=768%2C391&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/richard_fletcher_figure_1.png?w=1230&amp;ssl=1 1230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><figcaption><strong>Figure 1. What should the news media do<\/strong><br><strong>with statements from politicians that could be false?<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>These results were largely consistent across all of the 40 markets surveyed as part of the project, including countries like Germany, Spain and the UK, which have very different media systems to the U.S.. Furthermore, as I&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalnewsreport.org\/survey\/2020\/how-do-people-want-the-media-to-cover-politics\/\">wrote in June<\/a>, this general preference for reporting on potentially false claims \u201c\u2026 appears to be consistent across a range of different socio-demographic groups like age, gender, and political leaning. Even in the U.S., where some might assume partisan differences due to different political styles, a majority of those on the left (58%) and right (53%) would prefer potentially false statements to be reported prominently \u2013 though perhaps for different reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many journalists and commentators may disagree with this preference, and others might reject the idea that journalistic practice be dictated by the audience. Furthermore, this binary choice does not fully capture the nuances of the different journalistic approaches, and it is certainly possible that people think differently about the specific case involving Trump\u2019s speech on November 5th. Also, the role of platforms should not be forgotten\u2014as they face similar decisions about labelling and content moderation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the data from the Digital News Report reminds us that much of the public are generally uneasy about the news media taking the decision to keep information from them, even if the intentions are noble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many welcomed the decision to cut away from Trump\u2019s speech, and given the circumstances, a strong case can be made that it was the right thing to do\u2014just as a case can be made for showing the speech in full and then fact-checking it immediately afterwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But we should think carefully about whether this is a good precedent for political coverage more generally. We should ask whether it is something that journalists can realistically do in practice, but also whether it is something that audiences actually want them to do in the first place, and what they will ultimately think of news media who choose to do so\u2014especially prominent politicians that millions of people, who are often already sceptical of the news media, have voted for.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Fletcher Senior Research Fellow, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford Email: richard.fletcher@politics.ox.ac.uk One of the defining moments of the media coverage during the 2020 U.S. presidential election came when several major U.S. TV networks decided to cut away from President Trump\u2019s White House press conference on November 5th. 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