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Nov
3
The Dawn Of A New Era
Category: Opinions, Our Nation, Society | Comments Off | 717 words | Print
Is it just me or has this been the campaign that seemed like it would never end? It won’t be long now before we can turn on the cable news channels and not see a politician for at least 10 minutes. Of course, they’ll be focusing on high speed chases, missing college girls, and the mysterious chupacabra, but heck anything other than election news will be a welcome change at this point, right?
As I started typing this entry, the polls in Dixville Notch and Hart’s Location were just about to open in New Hampshire.
Dixville Notch, New Hampshire is a small village of about 75 people that is famous for being one of the first places to vote during Presidential elections. They are also one of the first to declare the winner at their location. Over the course of the past 12 elections they have chosen the winner 50% of the time. The last time they selected a Democrat was 1968, when they picked Humphrey over Nixon. They were wrong.
Nov
1
I’ve had it with the double standards. I’ve had it with the media bias. No matter who wins on Tuesday, I’ve learned one thing during this election cycle. The American people are no smarter today than they were 4, 8, 12, or even 16 years ago.
For years now, the media has had a field day filling our minds with information they want us to believe. Instead of reporting the news and leaving the facts open to interpretation by the viewers (or readers), many news organizations spend countless hours with their “contributors” advising us on how we should feel, what we should know, and most of all, what we should think.
Has our society become so mindless that we need these “contributors” to explain what’s going on in the world, sometimes for hours on end? Whatever happened to picking up the newspaper and simply reading the news? Whatever happened to the evening news reporting just that? It’s a rare occasion today to get any type of unbiased report from the media, and what about those double standards? What exactly is a “double standard“?