Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Success of the Soft-News Network
My uncle shared this video with me. I was going to just post it, however I wanted to share a few thoughts. I think the message the maker of this video is trying to get across has three parts. Firstly, that Obama voters did not really know who or what they were voting for. Secondly, that these people didn't have the right to vote for someone that they didn't know. Thirdly, (and this is where I agree with him) that the media did a really great job of getting the American people to know useless information about the candidates. They didn't discuss their policies but rather, the stuff that people would actually want to hear (like Palin's daughter becoming pregnant). I am interested to hear your thoughts after watching the video in its entirety.
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I think with all videos and projects like this (like the Howard Stern piece similar to this) we must keep in mind that this is all edited material and only the "best" material to serve the purpose of the video is shown. For example, my father told me that his interview for the Daily Show was 15-20 minutes and he was only on for a total of a minute.
I think before making this video mean anything, you should read the following things:
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/11/interview-with-john-ziegler-on-zogby.html
and
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200504/wallace
The second is better for background. The former is Nate Silver revealing that Zeigler is basically a propagandist who doesn't know anything about taking polls.
But this is not the Howard Stern piece where they were trying to sell them something. The same people that didn't know who controlled congress knew that Sarah Palin's daughter was pregnant. You can't make that up!
You can't make up the individuals, but c'mon. You can basically find someone to say anything in front of a camera. Especially if you're willing to keep asking people until you find someone that sounds stupid.
The message I'm trying to get across is the SAME PEOPLE that didnt know the answers to who ran congress, etc. did know that Palin's daughter is pregnant. This is the information they are getting from the news. They are obviously watching the news about the election if they know that about her daughter.
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