Sunday, November 13, 2016
Media and Politics
This post is a follow up to my previous one. I feel that a second big issue in politics and elections today is how opposite one another Democrats and Republicans running for higher office are. Politicians are afraid to cooperate or go against their political party's views because it would hurt their chance of re-election. We're also getting politicians who lean more towards their political side and are farther from the middle. I think this is because news outlets and other media sources tend to support one view point very heavily. People who consume this information see these half-truths or even false facts, and are led to believe that the other side must be stupid for ignoring these blatantly obvious truths, unaware that they're not actually truths. News outlets might also say that the other side is more extreme than it really is, making people oppose the other political party more than before. This could be changed if we had more honest and fair news sources, but that is unlikely to happen any time soon.
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I agree that the media heavily influences the public opinion on the presidential elections. Most news outlets are heavily biased towards one candidate, as seen in the 2016 election. I think that this may have been one reason that people voted for Trump- because he led them to believe that he will always tell them the "full truth."
ReplyDeleteThis also plays into why Trump was elected, he didn't follow the political norm. He also heavily went against Republican party ideals such as the LGBTQ community. The Republican party is known to be against certain gay rights while Trump has spoken multiple times for and against. The largest speech was at the Republican convention where he directly spoke about his stance of LGBTQ.
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