Biased Elections

Over the last sev­er­al years we have seen a trend in the media that cre­ates a prob­lem in the elec­toral process.

Con­sid­er this, the media can influ­ence the out­come of an elec­tion because of how they choose to cov­er that elec­tion and the can­di­dates that are run­ning in that elec­tion. 

If only one view­point is pre­sent­ed is it then a fair con­test?

Can we have legal elec­tions if the media influ­ences the out­come of an elec­tion by using psy­cho­log­i­cal tac­tics to pro­mote one can­di­date over anoth­er one, even per­haps pro­mote one can­di­date that can­not win and then lat­er turn on that same can­di­date and influ­ence the vot­ing pub­lic yet again, they might even be able to prof­it from this process.

The real ques­tion then becomes “should the media be direct­ly involved in influ­enc­ing elec­tions?”

Should the media be accept­ing adver­tis­ing dol­lars from cor­po­rate clients that have a direct inter­est in the out­come of an elec­tion?

When this hap­pens, you have some real con­flict of inter­est that might even be close to being a crime…

When you think about how often this hap­pens, and how opin­ion then becomes a pow­er­ful psy­cho­log­i­cal tool to help pro­duce results and influ­ence the out­come of an elec­tion then you have to ask the ques­tion should a law be passed to pre­vent the media from par­tic­i­pat­ing in an elec­tion by using psy­cho­log­i­cal phras­es and depict­ing a can­di­date in one way or anoth­er to attempt to influ­ence that elec­tion process.

A great exam­ple occurred on Fox news just recent­ly, when a bob­ble head, made a state­ment to the effect that a par­tic­u­lar can­di­date might have not been telling the truth dur­ing a debate, now there was no direct evi­dence that this com­ment was true, how­ev­er this bob­ble head, made the state­ment any­way even though they had no method of prov­ing what they said, the prob­lem was that the net result was that this bob­ble head cre­at­ed doubt in the minds of the view­ing and vot­ing pub­lic.

This “Bob­ble Head” caused an event to take place that cast doubt on this can­di­dates abil­i­ty to get elect­ed, now that is inter­fer­ing with an elec­tion.

This can­di­date may not be able to win votes, in the future because this media fig­ure used psy­cho­log­i­cal tricks to devel­op a doubt about this can­di­dates abil­i­ty to win an elec­tion, now that is just wrong, and this hap­pened on Fox news, so per­haps it might be accu­rate to say that a media orga­ni­za­tion that par­tic­i­pates unfair­ly in an elec­tion in this man­ner should be shut down because they have ceased to be a news com­pa­ny and have become instead an unau­tho­rized par­tic­i­pant in the elec­tion.

For years the media has been doing this type of thing and for the most part, they have got­ten away with it, but it may be time to start a process to refute this prac­tice and stop them from attempt­ing to influ­ence the Amer­i­can Elec­toral process.

The media should report the news.

The media should not make the news.

The Media should devel­op good report­ing prac­tices.

The media should not devel­op opin­ions with the intent to influ­ence the way vot­ers see any par­tic­u­lar can­di­date.

Peo­ple are not any­where near as dumb as com­pa­nies like Fox news think that they are and so it is time for the media to report the news and stop try­ing to derail a can­di­date based on opin­ion alone that is wrong and a law should be passed to pre­vent the media from mak­ing a prof­it when they do this, in fact they should be fined a big big fine, (more than they take in for adver­tis­ing for that same time peri­od) that would stop this insan­i­ty and cre­ate a real elec­tion again, because we have not had a fair elec­tion in a long long time.

It is time for the news media to step back from the brink of insan­i­ty.

As any­one will tell you when you active­ly engage in decep­tion using psy­chol­o­gy in this way, the result is insan­i­ty and it is wrong.

Adver­tis­ers, can no longer be allowed to pay a news com­pa­ny to influ­ence the news that is just wrong, and it is evil.

Fox news is just as guilty as many of these oth­er news com­pa­nies have been in the past, and that is just as wrong as what these oth­er so called news com­pa­nies are doing now, when a so called “reporter” fails to report the news or fails to ques­tion a biased state­ment by a guest that is also wrong.

Two wrongs do not make a right, and it is time that the media “wake up” because this is not what clas­sic jour­nal­ism is about what the mod­ern news media is all about is influ­enc­ing elec­tions, that is wrong, there is a dif­fer­ence between news, enter­tain­ment, and adver­tis­ing, when a news com­pa­ny engages, in all three, and does not dis­tin­guish between these dif­fer­ent meth­ods of media, that is also wrong.

Bias in the media is a hor­ri­ble thing because it take from cit­i­zens the right to make up their own minds, when bias rots the core of the media you cease to have a real report­ing news com­pa­ny and you have a state run media, that is wrong.

The fact is that for more than 30 years the media has been doing this unques­tioned, it is time that they stop doing this.