“A new presidential poll reveals that Democrats have the edge among voters under 30. The good news for Republicans is that there's only six people under 30 who actually vote.” PeopleRepublicanSixNewsVoteDemocratEdgesPresidentialVotersGood NewsPolls Author:Conan O'Brien
“Network news accustoms audiences to assertion not argument. Over time, it reinforces the notion that politics is about visceral identification and apposition, not complex problems and their solutions. ... sound bites aren't very helpful. They can tell a voter what a candidate believes, but not why. And many issues are too complex to be freeze dried into a slogan and a smile. ... What's lost in a world in which everything's an ad? Perhaps the country that created the assembly line has simply found a more efficient way to do politics.” WorldWayBelieveCountryProblemFoundPoliticsLostSoundLinesAudienceIssuesNewsSolutionsArgumentComplexesNotionCandidatesHelpfulVotersBitesAdsEfficientSlogansAssemblyAssertionFreezeIdentificationVisceralSound BitesAssembly LineComplex Problems Author:Kathleen Hall Jamieson
“The greatest threat facing American today - next to voter fraud, the Western Pinebark beetle, and the memory foam mattress - is the national news media.” TodayNextMemoriesMediaNewsThreatWesternVotersFraudFoamNews MediaBeetlesMattressesVoter Fraud Author:Stephen Colbert
“Confidentiality is the nature of all governments. Of course you may say, the government will always want to communicate the good news; things which bring satisfaction, cheer, help or pleasure to voters. And of course, you are right, governments are not masochists by nature.” WantMayHelpingGovernmentCoursesPleasureNewsSatisfactionCommunicateVotersCheerGood NewsConfidentiality Author:Bernard Ingham
“The [Bernie] Sanders campaign became the center of a good old-fashioned political controversy. His coverage went from no news to bad news with the revelation that four Sanders staffers took advantage of a software glitch to access confidential voter data belonging to the Hillary Clinton campaign.” PoliticalFourNewsAdvantageClintonAccessCampaignsDataRevelationsBelongingVotersSoftwareOld FashionedControversyCoverageBad NewsConfidentialGlitches Author:Melissa Harris-Perry
“The ability of Republican leaders to rile up their base - helped along by folks like Rush Limbaugh, some commentators on Fox News - I think created an environment in which Republican voters would punish Republicans for cooperating with me. That hothouse of back-and-forth argument and - and really sharp partisanship I think has been harmful to America.” ThinkingHas BeensAmericaAbilityLeaderEnvironmentRepublicanNewsArgumentFolksVotersFoxesBack And ForthCommentatorsFox NewsPartisanshipCooperating Author:Barack Obama
“In Obama's world, it's Fox News and me that are the reason the Republican base doesn't like him. It can't possibly be that those people actually pay attention, are actually intelligent, informed, and they actually disagree with what he's doing. It can't be that because you are not that smart and independently thinkable. You're like the Democrat base. You're bunch of idiots who only know and do and believe what you're told. There may be a degree of exaggeration in there, but that is exactly how the left looks at their voters, and that's how they look at the whole population.” PeopleKnowsWorldBelieveLooksMayReasonWholeLeftPayAttentionRepublicanDegreesNewsSmartIntelligentDemocratPopulationBunchPay AttentionIdiotVotersDisagreeFoxesExaggerationFox NewsThinkable Author:Rush Limbaugh
“While there were many factors in the 2016 election, from false news to voter suppression and Russian hacking, the question is why so many people responded to Donald Trump's demagoguery.” PeopleTrumpNewsElectionFactorsVotersSuppressionHackingDemagogueryVoter Suppression Author:Riane Eisler