Gore Bush
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The articles from Time magazine that cover the presidential campaigns and debates of Al Gore and George Bush present an array of opinions and ideological slants. In Margaret Carlson’s Is There A Double Standard?, the author does an excellent job of discussing how the Gore campaign’s toning down of the presidential candidate for debate two all but gave the victory to Bush because Gore was so appalled by a scathing satire of his first debate performance on Saturday Night Live that he sat numbly by while Bush delivered a slew of errors in the second debate “Perhaps if Gore had been alive, those mistakes would not have gone unanswered. But he was completely unnerved” (Carlson 62).Carlson is not biased against either candidate but she does serve to underscore the fact that Bush botched many facts in the debate but Gore lost because of an unnatural reserve induced by panicked campaign advisers and media satire. Thus, she truly believes the media allowed Bush’s ignorance to go unchecked. Michael Weisskopf, in Tax Cuts Before Tots, does not allow Bush any such kind of immunity from scrutiny. He blasts Bush’s records in Texas and argues that the presidential candidate may promise to meet the people’s “basic needs” and return excess budget monies to “the hands who earned it”, but, in reality, he fought hard to eliminate many social goods proposals during his tenure in order to give huge tax cuts to the wealthy (Weisskopf 57). The articl
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The role of the media in a democracy should be to present information and content in a way that gives equal time to all candidates and all issues. For example, even though Ralph Nader of the Green Party is purported to have 10% of Oregon locked up, his lack of air time on the national news and in media publications would make one hard pressed to believe he is a presidential candidate. Further, the media needs to promote political information in a manner that gives access to marginalized groups whose issues seldom get print or television coverage by the two main parties. In a democracy the media is also responsible for informing the public and community by delving into issues via research that allows busy voters to have a reliable synopsis of the main issues and facts surrounding them instead of slick, glossy, sound-bites that neither inform nor enlighten. In light of the high costs of political campaigning, the media can play a vital role in giving equal access and time to potential candidates and marginalized groups that otherwise will be buried by the huge budgets of a powerful but limited two-party system.
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Editor, Time magazine
I am writing in response to Nancy Gibbs’ article Wh
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Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page)
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