Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Internet's roll in Elections

As we all know Internet has made our lifes much easier. From paying bills , invesments, entertaiment, Information etc... . The WWW was created by the CIA to store and share criticall information about the Soviets during the cold war. Internet has evolved from a helpfull program in CIA's basement to almost every house in America. As for many things the Internet can be helpfull and harmfull in any particullar election. For example the Internet can raise millions of dollars for any candidate. We have seen that to be true with MoveOn.org and how they were able to raise huge sums of money for Sen. Obama. But the Internet can also be harmfull to voters and how they get their information. Unlike TV, the Internet is not regulated in the United States. This can cause major issues for our voters. Thats because anything is avalible at any time Online. Alot of un-true and propoganda can be found on the Web. I am not suggesting that everything on TV is true, but what I am saying is that the Internet has much more information that has been added by regular folks who are not often qualified to do so. An example of that is Wikipedia. So the internet can be helpfull to an candidate but not much for the average voter. So the question still remains; "Where in the media can the voter get UnBias and true information to decide?" Please if you know the answer to this question feel free to comment.

1 comment:

Gator said...

The print media is not unregulated either - do the same concerns you raise about the Internet apply to it. And the little bit I've listened to "talk radio," I am not at all sure that regulated airwaves prevent a lot of nonesense from being broadcast. I would like to believe that education helps people to become more critical thinkers and more able to distinguish the wheat from the chaff.