Does the new form of stage-management affect election results? In my opinion the media is the election. I don’t think a whole country would be able to hear about anything without the media. Actually I think it would be impossible for a country to have a democratic society without it.
Think about it, if there was no way of communicating with every region of a country, then it would be only rumors and the word of people spreading amongst citizens. How would a king get the people’s faith if the people didn’t even know the guy? Of course there are factors involved like taxes, protection and labor. But the thing about having a king is that it isn’t the citizens choice, and if there would be other upcoming candidates they wouldn’t have a chance of showing what they are worth or what they are capable of doing for people. It would clearly be impossible to have democracy without the media.
Politicians are using the media to get their messages and opinions out to the public. Personally I think this is the right way to do things, not just because most people will hear about them, but also because in this way every party will get their chances of showing the public what they are worth and what they stand for. Through media, people also get to witness or hear about politician’s mistakes or maybe even their failures to keep their word. I think it’s important for the public to see what kind of politicians they are handing, not only their vote, but their trust for them to make their country a better place to live and for them to keep their country safe and worth fighting for.
Of course there are good and bad things about today’s media. A really bad way the media affects society, would be their ability to crush important people or even strip them of important titles by uncovering things that the person wanted to keep secret. Most of the time the media does this to get more viewers for its (decide – do you opt for referring to the media in the singular or the plural in this paragraph?) newspapers, radio channel or online paper. Since the media are often making stories or articles about things that will attract readers, and since what most readers want to read about is scandals and other’s misfortune, the stories often get too involved in things that shouldn’t even concern normal citizens. Stories like ministers having a driving accident or other bad things like that. These kinds of stories put important people in bad situations towards gaining people’s trust, and in this ridiculous way, great people might lose their chance of ever getting the position/promotion they want.
It isn’t only the media that’s got power over people like politicians today. A normal citizen who’s got access to the internet does also have great influence over elections. Let’s say that I’m a blogger who’s got about a hundred readers. If I were to write something bad about a politician, it could be something I’ve experienced, seen or heard. And if it’s something my readers were to find interesting, then they would maybe consider telling their friends about what I wrote and that would mean that a lot of people were to hear bad things about the politician, whom I wrote about, because I didn’t like him. People would rather tell their friends about something they’ve heard from another person, say a blogger, then they would if it was something they had read in a newspaper.
I guess my final question to you would be. Do the media play a too big of a role in say elections?
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