Media's Effects on Political Elections (Election Essay)

          When one talk about voting for the ‘best’ candidate, he or she is talking about voting for the candidate that will be the best person to manage a whole country or region. How are the citizens going to know who will be the best candidate? Just let the citizens find out who is the best candidate themselves? No, humans are generally lazy. If there is an easy path and a difficult path towards the same destination, one will generally choose the easier path. The parties use media to spread information about their leader. But is it really that simple? No. The media is more than a radio; it is also a powerful weapon.

                During political election, only stating one’s own party’s pros is not enough to compete with other parties out in the market. In order to win, a party does not only try to raise their own impressions, they also try to abase their competitors’ image. They do this by putting the cons of the opposition out into the media where everyone can obtain.

           The medium of the media cannot be trusted at all times. One may hear of the phrase ‘do not trust all you hear, do not believe all you read.’ This is right. There are facts and there are lies, we have to know how to differentiate and decide based on how we individuals truly believe.