The Press vs. the Election
There are many elections that occur in the United States. In most people's opinions, the most important election is the presidential election. Although most ordinary people do not overanalyze how they get the information about the candidates during elections, in Thomas E. Patterson's book "Out of Order" he has proposed the thought that the media provides their election information to the people in an unfair and biased way. I will now explain to you the ways that I disagree and agree with him on different points. Patterson has gone into many different points, but I have chosen the ones that are most important to me, which are how the media directs voters towards one candidate, the amount candidates are quoted, if the media favors the Democrats over the Republicans, the amount the polls are covered, how the media manipulates articles with fighting words, the results of candidates not cooperating with the press, and the true importance of a third party. The de facto premise of today's system is that the media will direct the voters toward a clear understanding of choosing one candidate rather than another.1 There are two parts to this statement. I agree with the part stating that the media directs
The Gore Campaign agreed to do so, but the Bush campaign has not. From September sixteenth until September twenty-seventh the articles covering the election were completely turned around. As mentioned above when explaining the media directing voters toward certain candidates, the media wrote negatively for the Democratic candidate and the Republican candidate. These are the following polls: Gore, Bush: Statistical tie in Mo. It is that watchdog function that is so critical,' Nadar said.
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Bush Gore,
Middle School6,
Republicans Democrats,
Al Gore,
Texas'4 Basically,
Democrats Republicans,
Gore Campaign,
Date Accessed,
CNN Poll,
Republican Democrats,
date accessed,
oct 2000,
third party,
sept 2000,
cnn poll,
accessed 10/30/00,
trackingpoll/indexhtml* date accessed,
gore bush,
trackingpoll/indexhtml* date,
22 oct 2000,
al gore,
22 oct,
accessed 10/23/00 cnn,
poll 22 oct,
cnn poll 22,
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