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The modern U.S. media has an expanded scope where U.S. political elections and democracy are concerned. However, many people are concerned that this expanded scope will bring about no positive change in the electoral system because of the separatism that exists between the present U.S. political and media models. This fact was underscored recently when Charles Jones, a former American Political Science Association (APSA) president spoke recently, “When a former president of the APSA speaks or writes, the audience is usually small and its attention span short. However, when a former APSA president tells the media and many of his political science colleagues that their respective models of the American presidency and national government are far off base, rumbles of astonishment and disagreement begin to fill the air,” (Jones, 1995: 1). This paper will explore the relationship between the U.S. mass media, democracy and political elections.

One of the biggest failures of the mass media to cause effective change and information dissemination in American elections is because of the media’s inability to evolve their model of the American government as divided and torn, hence leaving the impression that the system does not work so why would anyone care about voting for a leader of it, “Why they (journalists, political scientists, and even presidents) cling to their respective models in light of the historical fact and daily reminders of separatism as the central feature of our government. There is the media model of divided, and hence unworkable, government and confrontation (hence, unrelenting battle) between parties or between presidents and Congress,” (Jones, 1995: 1).

Another reason for the failure of the media to accurately portray the issues is their obsession with news in any form, whether it be sensational and trivial, or whether it be something as significant as a presidential debate. However, there is no di...

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Mass Media. (1969, December 31). In LotsofEssays.com. Retrieved 02:26, March 29, 2024, from https://www.lotsofessays.com/viewpaper/1685920.html