What Role Does Media Play In Presidential Elections

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Television has been influential in United States presidential elections since the 1960’s. But just what is this influence, and how has it affected who is elected? Has it made elections fairer and more accessible, or has it moved candidates from pursuing issues to pursuing image? The media only impacts the American Society, especially for the presidential election as it increases the talks in politics and gives the president a higher role to follow. The television race captures more popularity than what a citizen is actually voting for.

It has recently come to my attention that not enough people understand how great bias in media has been to our lives. Each day we wake up and see near one or more biases in the media, lying at the foot of our beds. It is wonderful to be able to wake up and smile each morning because of this. Decisions are made based on what people hold to be true. History has shown instances where severly biased media. The most recognizable evidence being WWII and Stalin. "Because of the status quo bias, the media ignore any position that advocates radical change"

Television has been influential in America’s elections since the 1960’s, and as TV continues to grow, so will the influence it has over the people. Many people believe whatever comes on their television screen, and don’t think twice to counteract the information. As America continues to televise presidential elections and politics pertaining to that, the elections will be frequently unfair and biased, the candidates won’t be able to completely focus on what’s important, like their imagine instead of their ideas. Television may give more substantial access to millions of more people, but that could change that end result of the presidency for better, or for worse.

Newspapers attacked Jefferson relentlessly as his opponent was a federalist and he was not. However today it can be argued with the 24 hour news cycle coupled with the instant information age, candidates are more likely to be under a microscope than ever before. A quote from Sharpe shows how great the media's reach has become from where it use to be in earlier elections. “Most early newspapers were only four pages long. With half of that space often devoted to advertising, newspapers contained little that looks like “news” to the modern reader. There were no headlines and only the most rudimentary organization.”(Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 2003) Unlike earlier times, today's information is easily accessible to millions of people. Take for instance when Donald Trump tweets somethen controversial which he often does, it automatically reaches millions of followers within seconds.The media now has this instant ammo to attack these candidates, and make them look unfavorable to the American public. All of the people that were interviewed in my study were well aware of the media’s bias even if they disagreed on which portion of the media was bias and which was not. When asked “which media outlets are the most bias and why?” Majority of the group named CNN, MSNBC, and FOX as the most biased news outlet. It can be said that all of the subjects were in agreeance

In the twenty-first century we have many media outlets to choose from. We may not recognize, but most of them have some sort of bias. The presidential election is coming soon so there is a lot of talk about it. Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders’ popularity is going up and different outlets view Sanders differently.

In the 2016 Presidential Election, the popular vote was won by Hillary Clinton, even though Trump won the presidency thanks to the Electoral College. This is undeniable evidence that there are more Democrat voters in the United States than anyone else, which can be tied to the influence of the media on voters. One example would be shortly after the tragic Las Vegas shooting, CNN provided a graphic attempting to explain how a bump fire stock worked, because that was an attachment the shooter had used. However, the firearm did not include a bump fire stock, but it did include a grenade launcher and silencer, which are completely unrealistic attachments available only to the U.S. Military. The media is swaying the views of voters by portraying the President and other conservatives falsely as well as other biased stories that entail obvious

In one of the republican debates Ted Cruz called out the moderator for asking questions that had tendencies of liberal policies. He said “The questions asked in this debate illustrate why the American people don’t trust the media.”, a big round of applauses came right after he made the statement, which made a point . And conservatives got tired of being questioned with a liberal influence, so they made a move. Trump certainly had a lot of people behind him thanks to favors and gifts. And even if it wasn’t with gifts, speaking about Trump means ratings so a lot of outlets started covering more and more his steps. Stephen Hayes, a Fox News Special Report panelist, tweeted about it, he said, “The number of publicly pro-Trump pols/commentators who are privately anti-Trump or at least not at all pro-Trump? A really big number.” This represented money for the news organization and even if trump wasn’t for the ideology they tend to favor they would still emphasize it because it is profitable. So, during this presidential election, bias media was a very popular theme, but that should push people away from the

To say the media is bias is an understatement. One could just look at the political coverage and easily identify which party the network supports. However when it comes to news and current events being bias or disingenuous can have massive results and spread misinformation. The news promotes stories that bring in ratings or bolster their narrative. These actions have been

In the article, Media Bias in The 2016 Presidential Race, it brings up a key element that “there are only so many pages in a newspaper or so many minutes in a nightly news program and not every important story can be published” (Papastefan). This leads to the conclusion that news outlets must determine which piece of information they would like to put out there for millions to see, bringing out the biased part of these news channels. Papastefan also points out that the news outlets are obviously going to look to publish the stories that will bring their ratings up, so it is up journalists to pick which stories they find to be the most interesting and will bring attention to their audience. Obviously these journalists are going to pick the to release the stories that they find praises their political party and downgrades those they dislike. This can be compared to a child picking someone for their kickball team and the only two people that are left is their best friend and a kid he or she loathes greatly; clearly the kid he hates will not be

The media is lying to our faces while pushing their own opinions onto the groups that they have influence over. This statement might sound insane but an overwhelming number of Americans believe that the media is not being completely honest with the information that they are reporting. Media bias may not seem like a hard-hitting issue but it can become extremely dangerous in the right circumstances. Media bias becomes a dangerous weapon when politicians use it as a tactic to get the upper hand in a situation. Often, this situation involves the presidential elections and other high ranking official elections. In almost every presidential election there are reports where party officials often accuse certain networks of favoritism towards one party

Media bias is a topic that has been in great focus of many political leaders over the past few presidential elections. However, what many people fail to see is that media bias has been around since the beginning of major news companies. Most Americans do not know what media bias is or how to identify it. That stated many people have noticed that most news stations are biased towards one religion, political party or even gender. This has been like this for decades however has become much more prominent during major wars, the great depression and many social and political reforms such as the industrial era or the civil rights era. However the type of bias has been shifted mostly from a war focus and the focus on exposing corruption to

In modern industrialized democracies, the broadcast media reach virtually all adults and provide a national forum for candidate and political parties. (Iyengar 19) Media systems today do this so much that they become repetitive and sometimes annoying to viewers. During the presidential campaign there is a lot of media time given to the candidates through debates, interviews, other outlets, and their own advertisements that they pay for themselves. I am fully aware that our country needs to be involved and notified of political events as they currently happen but recently there has been major coverage each day about small things. For example, if a candidate is just out around or doing something that we have already seen then it should not be

One of the easiest ways to see the influence of media bias is through the election season. Political propaganda has a major effect on potential voters during this time because of the magnitude of the event. There was a study done in 2007 that discovered that Fox News, who is known to be republican bias, had convinced 3% to 28% of their listeners to vote republican (Knight, Chiang, 2008). On the reverse side, readers of the primarily democratic Washington Post’s probability to vote democrat, increased by 8% (Knight, Chiang, 2008). What this shows is that in a

If one were to wonder about the most critical fact about bias in the media is, Tim Groseclose answers: in the average presidential election, only seven percent of news correspondents to Washington vote for the Republican candidate, with the rest overwhelmingly voting for the Democratic candidate. A famous study that supports this was done in 1995 by Elaine Povich, who works at the Media Research Center’s Freedom Forum. Povich was also a reporter for the Chicago Tribune and Newsday. In her study, she surveyed one hundred and thirty-nine chiefs of the Washington Bureau, as well as congressional correspondents. Only seven percent of them said they had voted for George H.W. Bush over Bill Clinton. In 2004, columnist from the New York Times John