Fair Elections

Can there be a fair elec­tion when the media takes part in the elec­tion process?

I find that there are some seri­ous issues in how the media cov­ers elec­tion can­di­date.

Should some­thing be done to pre­vent the media from giv­ing free cov­er­age and free PR to cer­tain Can­di­dates while oth­er can­di­dates have to pay for such cov­er­age?

That is just one aspect of how media bias might cre­ate an unfair elec­tion process.

The demo­c­ra­t­ic process is one that Amer­i­ca spreads, it is our answer to most prob­lems we encounter, but have we become hyp­ocrites in allow­ing the media to become so cal­lus and bias in their cov­er­age that they begin to sub­vert the truth by allow­ing lies to become thought of as truth.

When you see on TV pro­duc­ers that have teleprompters and bob­ble heads that have to read garbage that pro­duc­ers trot out like it is some kind of truth when in fact it is noth­ing but lies and steam­ing piles of trash.  It used to be that peo­ple were not very edu­cat­ed, back in the 1950s the num­ber of peo­ple who could read was much low­er than it is now, and the num­ber of peo­ple who have inter­net access and get their new online has increased at a very large mar­gin. 

So, the real ques­tion here is this, why have we allowed the media to attempt con­trol what we see and what we hear?

Because for the most part peo­ple are just not that stu­pid, yet we have the media that con­tin­ues to try to influ­ence what hap­pens and why cer­tain can­di­dates get favor­able cov­er­age?  

In a world where can­di­dates have to report every dime they raise in cam­paign con­tri­bu­tions, should it not also be the pol­i­cy of the law to report all the “free” pub­lic­i­ty, they receive as income?

Should con­gress begin to reg­u­late the media?

I am sure the media would be against this and it is a real prob­lem, because where do you stop, what hap­pens when you have con­gress decid­ing what is free speech and what is not, then you have even more prob­lems.

Still we need some seri­ous con­trol over what is becom­ing some­thing that could cause the elec­tion process to become a joke.  Imag­ine what might hap­pen if every­one in the world began to under­stand that the media in the US was alleged­ly cor­rupt? 

What would be the con­se­quence?

The answer may not be an easy one but it is a prob­lem that we must find an answer to.

 If the media has stopped report­ing on the news, and has now joined in the elec­toral process as no longer a report­ing agency but a par­tic­i­pant, then we must find a way to stop them from tak­ing over the process.

We need to restore the faith that the pub­lic used to have in the media…

Peo­ple used to depend on the news for what we knew for what we under­stood, for our future…
Now it has become some­thing less, some­thing dif­fer­ent, some­thing that is not what we want.