Saturday, October 6, 2012

Chapter 6

Is American news media too dependent upon polls? Is it appropriate for news agencies to create polls and then report on them? Why or why not?
I do believe that the news media starts playing off the polls when the election starts getting hot. I don't believe that they are always right and really they never know what is right or wrong. When something is said that can be flipped I think they play off of it a lot and which ever one messed up is the one they play.


How important is political party identification to you? Was it more or less important to your parents and grandparents? Does it seem more or less important to your friends? Why or why not?
I think that the political party identification is not that important to me. My parents never really talked about politics all that much and neither does my friends. We seem to all have the same view that we go with who is trying to watch out for the lower and middle class people. I know I don’t want someone that is all for the people who have money and the ones of us that struggles will get more struggles and stress on us. I want someone that will look after us on our health care. It is hard for lower and middle class and really hard on single parents that have kids to get health insurance if they don’t have any through their work place.  When I go to vote I vote for who I think has the best outlook and changes to try and make that will help people not make things harder on people that are trying and working on trying to give their kids a better life. The way I look at it if some changes don’t happen our children not unless they are born into money or given it will not have a future. It seems that only money is what matters to some of the people in our government.
Do you feel that your opinion of politics is more influenced by economic issues or by social issues? Why?
By economic issues with the way the economics is right now our future does not look good unless some big changes happen and the U.S. starts worrying about the American people and less on other people in the world. I am still stuck on the way it is so hard to get health insurance. If people could have an easier way on getting it or the government set up so everyone could have it then more people would be heathery and more people could work or even create jobs.
Posted on Tinisha Key and Robert Cook. 

1 comment:

  1. I definitely agree it is hard for lower and some middle class Americans to get the healthcare they deserve, especially if their employer does not offer it.

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