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Originally Posted by nik-
The media's job is to report it, not force him to be unelected. They reported so much of it that it was overload and actually made it all less effective.
The whining over the media is one of the worst things about this election cycle.
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I disagree that the medias job is to report news. They have an important role in being arbiters of fact in the same way that scientists due in their field. The question that I think needs to be answered out of this is how do you take a misinformed voter and turn him into an informed voter?
Historically, journalists were trusted arbiters of facts. Now they are not and merged into this infotainment medium that people choose the facts to match their opinions.
The media is broken in its function as the fourth estate and that leaves the masses open to propaganda.