"I love Sarah Palin.
He believed that evil to understand, then, I repeat, "Sarah Palin?"
"Yes. I think that she is a great candidate."
If that person was a friend, I would have shouted: "Are you crazy?" If it is a coworker, I said, curiosity, "Really?" But there is one such person: It is my mother.
Therein lies the basic dilemma this election: It may be that the Democrats against Republicans, the new facility in comparison with the old establishment, hope to buy tickets in comparison with the experience of the fare, but ultimately counts is the Internet generation Compared with the generation of TV news.
Do not get me wrong - there are many people of childbearing age and grandchildren, that they intend to vote for Obama and Biden. But it can still much more that is not the case. In June, the Pew Research Center poll of voters over 65 years and noted that McCain with 37 to 44 points ahead of Obama. However, a recent Washington Post-ABC News poll showed that voters age 18-34 preferred Obama to McCain by a 2 to 1 Of course, this is old news - we all know now that Obama is as fresh candidates, appealed to young voters and John McCain not to photograph jump or dance to Ellen. Not that dancing or basketball Beyoncé makes you better qualified to be President.
But now, with the introduction of the media to discuss new favorite Sarah "sexy" Palin (Perez Hilton has it), the cool ticket has lost some of its edge and hip at least one got a TV - Headline fuel adrenaline. A shot of espresso in its guarantee of freedom of movement, if desired. And with less than two months before 4 November, while should talk about the growing unemployment, declining wages, rising costs for health care, the registration of mortgages at home, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and a number of other issues affecting our nation, our media focus more Mrs Palin dubious position in the "Bridge to Nowhere", "Trooper gate" scandal, as Mayor Parting Gift $ 22 million debt of the city and its Wasilla verpfuschte urban projects, including a sports complex, sat in a dispute nearly seven years .
At the same time, shows pictures of her five children - including Down syndrome and children and pregnant daughter. Its beauty photos. Traces of his death and a moose.
Since the public, we have the right to know the past of Palin and his position on these issues. Unfortunately, our media - television, especially our media - in fact little difference between new and unnecessary objects: big stories, such as the cessation of their lobbyists to secure their status (a practice allegedly McCain vehemently opposed a) his extreme pro - Life position on abortion, his conviction that "God's will" is an active force within the government, its support for curriculum creationism in public schools, and its total absence of foreign policy experience (despite the fact that Alaska is right next to Russia "McCain told ABC) are all somehow in the footnotes of the largest, exciting history as the first woman appointed Republican Vice President.
How did this happen? How do we in the policy Obama acceptance speech in Denver, one week later, reading stories in The New York Times on mothers Palin contradictory feelings about the possible role as guardian of their children and the nation?
Karl Rove is the policy of easy answers. But not too much credit Karl. Hey, Rick Davis and the rest of McCain's dream team of consultants have developed short May of this ticket, but had to work very hard so that it works. They knew McCain was never to win even a significant minority of young voices. They knew that he had difficulties in the Independent. And after nearly six years of war and the economy headed down the drain, forget the Reagan Democrats.
But McCain advisers do not know the potential number of middle-aged and older voters (over 100 million people older than 45 are registered on electoral lists, as opposed to half that number are younger). And they knew that the only way to rescue still undecided or indifferent to them was the new bomb, but the information is irrelevant. In order to steer their attention. In other words, the public an unknown candidate, always trying to decipher - and thus the attention of John McCain and the Republican party as Arianna Huffington record has pointed out - until the last vote on November 4.
According to a report of the Project for Excellence in Journalism in 2007 the average number of viewers of Cable News Channel is in decline, but the cumulative audience of all channels is increasing. In other words, people are leafing Cable News tidbits of information, but not stay long enough to show, or even an entire history. This leaves plenty of room to misinterpretation.
In addition, while the average age of viewers watching the Cable News is about 50 (which means that people of all age groups are in agreement), young viewers seem to share their information from other sources. A study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, 46% of Americans have participated in this election via the Internet, email, SMS and mobile phones. But 74% of Obama supporters to use such electronic formats to monitor the elections and are more likely to read news online election, as opposed to the supporters of McCain (65% vs. 56%). According to another poll by the Pew Research Center for People and the Press, half of Obama's supporters are more than fifty - but McCain. So what could be a difference in Internet usage between the two groups of trailers? It would be young and naturally enough, Obama 24 point lead over McCain with voters younger than 30 years - a surprising statistic might explain why Obama supports significantly "more than" McCain his supporters' use of online video, social networking sites and other campaign activities on the Internet. "logical that young people would be more knowledge about technology that older people: Even self-proclaimed computer illiterate" McCain described his control over the vice-presidential selection as "Google."
You do not need to say, each invested in this election and the Cable Television News as impartial and strict reporting on issues and candidates. Unfortunately, as voters at a time when big media corporations are owned by a handful of companies, the voters must be in its own examination of the candidate. One can easily see, ED Hill's "terrorist fist JAB" Obama reporting on Fox News and just ridiculous the wrong view that Obama is an Al-Qaeda, see or listen to CNN Soledad O'Brien that the reduction of state Palin special needs funding in Alaska "I think 62 percent is the figure" (where the other hand, increased costs) and depreciation of the Governor as hypocrites.
Unfortunately, nothing surprising or newscasters "(or any other)-journalistic approach to development. When it comes to the so-called" election coverage, "is the lingo of aficionados, the problems are responsible for the research is premature. But, cares? people are on the lookout, is not it? people like my mother. And people like me, go to the Internet to find out what exactly happened. And that is a pain. I wish it could so easily such as turn on the television to thirty minutes. My general rule, if the news channel has a slogan ( "report. You decide" or "The most trusted name in news"), I probably do not want what you sell.
That is the reason why the quantity of less than 45 years, the Internet, in this campaign to find the facts, analysis and removal of false information. According to a study by Pew Internet, "Two-thirds of Internet users under 30 have a profile of social networks, and the other half use these social networking sites to obtain or exchange of information about politics or campaigns." Young people are certainly the voters to their own journalists defenders this election. But once again, young (or less) people have time and energy to do the leg work to the facts. One middle-aged, working two jobs to pay for health insurance, rising fuel and food costs, and his son escalating tuition fees - the key demographic that will help Obama - Probably not. And if it's still the opportunity to examine their e-mail or visit a few blogs, spam is likely to plough Obama offered as a terrorist and Muslim Photo shopped pictures of Sarah Palin in a bikini American flag with a pistol on hip. That is the reason why Rick Davis, unfortunately, is transparent, when he said Fox on Sunday that the campaign "is not on these issues." It must, but it is not. It is a lesson in media literacy. And herein lies the problem for the Democrats and the genius of the Republican Party of the strategy: Obama knows, no matter what the age, you're not "stupid"; McCain camp is betting can not be done, "an account of Google."
McCain Why else with Obama could say that the collection of taxes, when in fact it could do to about 5% of the richest countries? How can you say McCain Obama is against nuclear power when it comes to one of the biggest proponents of democracy? Why else would Sarah Palin to expand to Obama in the organization of the Community when monitored many more people in Illinois as the Mayor of the 9000 residents of Wasilla, AK? We have 24 hours are not new, are we? But is it news or is it "news"? McCain knows is not really the research that the media's coverage focused on his time - the symbol. Providing the public with scandals and hot heart stories. Giving false statements and information of the poor. They are banking services, that these older voters have no time, energy or know-how to find the facts for themselves.
So, if my mother said he loved Sarah Palin, I was surprised - spent countless hours reading news blogs, online documents and take a look at the video - but I should not have been the case. Fifty-eight percent of the registered voters of McCain's choice "excellent or very good." My mother was one of them. And they thought he had attention - that they had seen a "long-play" Mrs Palin in a Cable News Channels and the governor of Alaska "Pit bull" speech at the Republican National Convention. I'm 25, 55th I grew up in the era of Bill O 'Reilly's "No Spin Zone", grew up in the era of Walter Cronkite. I guess all new - television and the Internet alike - with a grain of salt, until further research, agree that all information must be relevant, or at best partially true ( "Why a Others allow them to say on TV?"). This could explain why at the end of my conversation with her, the only thing we can both agree on the fact that research has been done enough for all of us, in our respective opposite conclusions on the "mother of hockey" Vice President Selection.
So, although certainly my mother are members of the older generation and those that are beyond Hannity & Colmes or the Today Show to get information about candidates, I hope that they are not in the minority, as polls indicate. Because if they are, then my generation of voters may be better informed. And most of us want to change (the voters of all age groups) can see that our candidate will lose this election - and our dreams for the future - because the media voters less read and write, refrain from further testing and 26 years Republican Senator medium Governor , Are actively involved in the escape promise that "change is coming."
