James Wahutu is an Assistant Professor in Media, Culture, and Communication who focuses on questions about data privacy and media manipulation. In NeimanLab's Predictions for Journalism 2021, he claims that “Political journalism needs to wean itself from right-wing agitators and call this period what it is: an erosion of democracy and attempts to radicalize large chunks of the electorate.” (Wahutu) As an expert in media manipulation, Wahutu is a perfect candidate to discuss political views in the modern day.
The left-wing journalists, Wahutu, warns the public and other journalists that we need to live above the biases from right-wing agitators, meaning the media is full of them. He even refers to the right-wings as agitators, which is a rhetorical strategy he uses to imply the right-wing journalists are people who use faulty information to urge others to join their side. This is very important to be mindful of when consuming news across various sources because the information could be incorrect.
Wahutu summarizes the modern era to an erosion of democracy and attempts to radicalize large chunks of the electorate. “...Attempts to radicalize large chunks of the electorate” is a big accusation Wahutu uses as a rhetorical strategy to warn and or even scare potential political journalists that there have been “radical” biased views they may face in the future. He admits that the right-wing journalists were successful in eroding some of the work of democracy, but that we need to move forward with the new active Democratic President of the United States, Joe Biden.
With all this in mind, Political Journalists will certainly have to keep an eye open for the biased views the right-wings imposed during this time of political discourse.
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