“A lot of people criticize the media and say it’s not accurate. I think they do a good job,” she said. “It’s their job to find information and spread information; it’s our job to fact-check. It’s our job to make sure that the sources that we utilize are in fact credible sources.”
Bailey does have concerns about the quality of local news that she can access. “In terms of our areas, we don’t get that kind of coverage,” she said. “We definitely do not get all of what we need in order to empower us to do that work that we need to do.”
Mark Robert Gordon, an actor and writer and member of the Arizona delegation, reeled off The Washington Post, The New York Times, Arizona Republic, Playbill, ESPN, and, of course, Variety, as among his daily must-reads for news. His biggest concern is not the veracity of reporting but the deeper divisions nationwide that are growing at a time when red and blue states struggle to agree on basic truths about the impact of legislation and other issues.
“We need to have the same set of facts again,” said Gordon, who works largely in theater and had a recurring role on “Guiding Light” in the 1990s. “We can have our opinions to express about those facts, but people are going to their own chosen sources for news. So you’d better have a variety of sources in order to get a balance.”
Jevon Price, a California delegate from Tulare County in the central part of the Golden State, said he get a lot of immediate news from social media. He balances that info stream with traditional standard-bearers such as Washington Post, New York Times and BBC.
“I do watch a lot of TikTok and Instagram,” Price admitted. “I try to stay off Facebook.”
Many state delegates are local politicians as well. Nickie J. Antonio, minority leader in the Ohio state senate, came to Chicago with her fellow salon Meredith Turner, a council member for Cuyahoga County in the Buckeye State.
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