With each passing month the Netscape looks more and more like that of the short film EPIC 2015, while the mergers and brand names are outdated, the message remains the same.
Our job is to make sure this does not happen. News must be accessible to everyone, and it must remain in professional hands. So how does this effect our election one might ask?
There's much talk but it's not about the issues. Once in the texan debate was it covered, but then CNN switched to hypothesizing about what the a Hillary-Obama handshake meant.
Headlines all over call Hillary the nearly defeated. Tomorrow they may call her the comeback kid once again. Elections are a popularity contest now, and it's entirely out of our hands.
Supposedly viewers control what they want to hear, and what they are hearing is a lot of jabber. No one is making definitive claims. Yet most of them aren't watching TV. They are in the blogsphere and in video commentary boards. They are chattering about issues yes. Intelligently? Yes. But there aren't raging debates going on with anyone who is not seeking them out.
What happened to debating? This is the polarization many speak of. It is not that our country is divided into two nations named Hippie-Libby Town and Jesus Land. We just aren't talking about our beliefs as we once did. Debates lack fighting. They are too civil. Or they are too violent. Resorting to personal attacks instead of picking apart the issues.
Socially we have "progressed" and this election seems to be about that on the democratic side. No one that was a white male, even if they were saying the right things, such as Biden and Richardson, was going to be kept within the running.
They are the same words being said, the faces have just changed. The coverage about the election is not as different from the 2000 or 2004 election. It's the same old story.
There's just more at stake.
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