Mass Medias effect on election campaigns

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Like most good ideas Television coverage of elections started out innocent and innovative. But in the years since its creation television has slowly eroded the foundation of our unique election process. It has turned a sacred tradition and reduced it to a pathetic sideshow. Inspiring election speeches have been whittled away to sound bites. The dream of young Americans to rise up out of poverty, taking hold of the highest office in the land through …

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…To solve this problem we as a nation need to come together and tackle it head on. Eliminating the role of broadcasters and networks as much as possible. We need to recapture the roots of a Democratic process that is envied all over the world. Too many heroic Americans have fought and died in the effort to create a free nation. The state of American politics is a tragedy and an insult to there memory.