In this article Diana Mutz wrote about the election campaign and how it affects the people. In her career when she has covered the campaign as a part of media it was not really a great feeling for her. She believes there is a great difference between how public views the part media plays in election then what a candidate thinks. She thinks media is not very influential to change public views over a candidate. She argued that majority of the people already knew and determined on who they going to vote way before the general election campaign started.
Polarized Media Exercise In his novel, How Partisan Media Polarize America, Matthew Levendusky analyzes partisan media and its effects on viewers. Levendusky comes up with several hypotheses after he conducted experiments with the effect of partisan media on viewers. In his first hypothesis, the Like-Minded Attitude Hypothesis, Levendusky says, “On average, exposure to like-minded partisan media will polarize attitudes”(Levendusky 52).
His intended audience is aimed at the youth, because our generation has become so dependent on on social media to receive our information, teenagers are who he is trying to reach out to. In comparison with the CNBC article, this article discusses more how political figures use social media to engage with a larger audience. The CNBC article, on the other hand, comprises of several examples of fake news stories, and examines the implication that those stories had a big effect on the results of the 2016 presidential election. This article provides examples of how presidential candidates can reach a larger audience via social media, and can therefore create an image for themselves on a larger platform to gain a larger following. Since it discusses the widely documented presidential election of 2016, almost every viewer would be able to associate some previously gained knowledge and consider how social media may have altered their
The media is a major source of information for voters. Voters depend on the media to make their decision on who to support and vote for. As much trouble as the media causes, they play a major role in our political system. The American President accurately depicts the political process.
Television has been influential in United States presidential elections since the 1960’s. It almost feels like without television, there’s no election. That’s how important the broadcasting of elections on Television has become. Television started the era of “movie star presidencies.” Presidential elections have become more accessible to Americans, but less fair.
Today, there is a lot of bias going on in the media. Media bias is the perception that the media is reporting the news in a partial or prejudiced manner. The media today feeds people with the correct information, but not complete information. They leave one side of a story or a crucial aspect of a story. An example is the case of the 2008 election.
Social media has become a daily use all across the world. Although social media platforms have started to just make an impact in the early 2000s. Political activists depend heavily on the media to get their ideas placed on the government agenda. Media started in politics by writing new papers and listening to the politician on the radio, yet has transformed into seeing the cadiate live speaking on the television or on social media platforms. Mass media can be beneficial to the candidates when relaying their message to a later audience at any given time and day.
As we all know, social media had a huge impact on the 2016 presidential election. Each candidate used forms of social media to enhance their campaign strategies but at times, it may have hurt their campaign. One of the main forms of social media that they used was Twitter. Each candidate used this platform to promote their campaign in various ways. One way they hurt their campaign was by slandering their opponent.
Social media has changed the presidential elections tremendously, in both positive and negative aspects. Twitter has especially revolutionized the elections as a result of the various responses posted from citizens over the past years as the internet has become more popular throughout generations. Social media pages tend to attract more of an audience in this day and age in comparison to other means of advertisement. Political leaders have picked up on this statistic, and decided to get on board with the "Twitter trend" in order to gain interaction and publicity. A huge turnout came about, especially amongst millennial's.
In America, Media bias is everywhere, in the United States all the information that an average American received through everyday sources, the news was most likely processed through the media and told through a biased point of view, when the media gets their hands on news if it is important then it probably won’t be talked about or downplayed no matter the source like in the newspaper, radio, television, movies, as well as other outlets that the media uses, the media only seems to share the news that they find interesting, even then the media would most likely have changed the story, in what they say is just tweaked news, what actually happened and what really happened would be two different stories, also the story would be told from one person
According to the article The Daily Planet, “Because media construct reality, under economic terms that shape their messages, and powerfully transmit value, they have important social and political effects (307).” During the election, Trump used the strength of media to ‘win’ the presidency. He attended many television programs and made some funny things in order to attract people’s attention. When people watched television programs, they can know more things about Trump. Sometimes, people will talk about Trump’s television programs, so it will cause social effects.
As claimed by Schudson (n.d.), The New York Times’ coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign in America gave a lot of attention to new media, which symbolized a new and prominent media type. In the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign, new media was starting to garner a lot of attention and was slowly establishing itself; when an internet video was downloaded five million (5,000,000) times on YouTube. According to the article, YouTube’s fast or “viral” videos empowered a new generation of “political warriors” who have faster and more influence in the political campaign than in traditional media. Access to platforms like YouTube wherein anyone can upload a video and garner over 5,000,000 views has a chance to express their opinions in any way
Before media, politicians and other newsmakers had to rely on word of mouth to communicate the various messages they were espousing. However, they found this was an unreliable method of communication and the first newspapers and other media mediums were created. This comes at a drawback. As media companies grow larger and larger, they become more susceptible to bias. This has lead to a proliferation of bias across the many media companies in existence today.
When thinking of the media you think they are reporting the appropriate and accurate information not based on any personal opinions and feelings. Also one would not think the media would be reporting based on one side of politics or the other. The media is extremely biased when it comes to politics and news. While some of the media is conservative-biased I believe the mass media is liberal-biased. Majority of media outlets are liberal companies, media personnel and journalists will identify themselves as democrats and liberals more so than republicans or conservatives and lastly the left side (liberals) of the mass media is persuasive on what information to report.
Bias is defined as being prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair. Americans experience some sort of bias every day, however, media bias is likely the most prevalent. Media can be biased towards liberals, conservatives, or any other political leaning. According to University of Oklahoma Professor, Keith Gaddie, the mainstream media mostly suffers from liberal bias - which is usually hostile toward conservative candidates and causes. Media bias can misinform, exaggerate truths, and cause confusion during voting season.
