Growing up, I was told that in the 'modern age of television' elections have to be handled carefully with information propagating at appropriate times so as not to wrongly influence voters. To put it shortly -- you couldn't show that one candidate was certain to win if polls on the east coast hadn't closed yet because you might influence their decision.

Maybe it wasn't ever *illegal,* but the more I hear about the way the media is handling the elections now and in the past years, I think that sentiment has completely been thrown to the wind. It's not just Fox News either. All the major news media outlets are mixing parts of reality selectively to sell a specific agenda to people with the express intent of coaxing more viewership to sell higher-dollar adtime. 

They'll make it look like everyone in a room booed a gay Soldier and they'll do everything they can to ignore Ron Paul (regardless of how crazy the man is, he deserves his fair chance). Those are far from the only examples available.

How is this not illegal? How is this not direct interference with the electoral process? When everything we know about the election is brought to us by severely biasing media outlets with agendas of their own to shape the election, how can it be acceptable that there's no oversight to the way elections are processed in the media?
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How is the news media shaping the electoral process to fit their agendas not an illegal interference in the process much the same way I can't stuff a ballot box or pay to bus tons of
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Growing up, I was told that in the 'modern age of television' elections have to be handled carefully with information propagating at appropriate times so as not to wrongly influence voters. To put it shortly -- you couldn't show that one candidate was certain to win if polls on the east coast hadn't closed yet because you might influence their decision.

Maybe it wasn't ever *illegal,* but the more I hear about the way the media is handling the elections now and in the past years, I think that sentiment has completely been thrown to the wind. It's not just Fox News either. All the major news media outlets are mixing parts of reality selectively to sell a specific agenda to people with the express intent of coaxing more viewership to sell higher-dollar adtime. 

They'll make it look like everyone in a room booed a gay Soldier and they'll do everything they can to ignore Ron Paul (regardless of how crazy the man is, he deserves his fair chance). Those are far from the only examples available.

How is this not illegal? How is this not direct interference with the electoral process? When everything we know about the election is brought to us by severely biasing media outlets with agendas of their own to shape the election, how can it be acceptable that there's no oversight to the way elections are processed in the media?
user
The news media is a bunch of fuckwads and it's not just Fox News.
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