Today, politicians use television ad space to bash and "roast" their adversaries. While I don't like our current president, he definitely did an excellent job of exposing the faults of his opponents via commercials. He is a perfect example of taking advantage of television for a political endeavor.
Television, in general, has affected the way I view politics. My dislike for the president is due, in large part, to the way he "roasts" people on television. He has no concern for truth or decency when he attacks someone's character or beliefs.
Has TV influenced your stance on politics? If so, in what way? Have you chosen to support a candidate simply because of advertising?
I definitely think TV is affecting politics, but I think its not just TV, its our social network in general. The way that the internet presents itself to you, especially regarding politics, is highly personalized due to data mining. People who have shown conservative leanings in their searches and in who they watch will continue to have conservative posts, channels, and news sources recommended to them. While this may not have been intentional as it was meant to target you with products, it hasn't stopped them form abusing this as well. The Internet has become highly divisive as you will never see CNN news reports on your news feed for google if you often watch things like Fox News. It's sad but the internet has been designed to divide people into small like minded communities and isolate them from the rest. Its almost totalitarian how controlled our news can get. It's quite sad that technological innovations like the TV have been abused for the benefit of political parties by dividing people even more and effectively locking votes, like how California is always blue and Texas is always red.
ReplyDeleteI would like to think that TV has not altered my view on politics, but the truth is that for most people, the influence TV has on everyones political view is almost always indirect, and people don't even notice it. For example, CNN recently reported news on Trump visiting Mount Rushmore, stating that he will, "Be standing in front of a monument of two slave owners and on land rested away from Native Americans". The same report was done on Bernie Sanders in 2016, but there was no report on the presidents of Mount Rushmore being slave owners or the land being taken away from Native Americans. Although none of these reports are false or manipulated, they can easily sway you political view. The scary thing about this is that people have no say in the matter, since people don't even know its happening in the first place.
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