Super Tuesday

As we all know super Tuesday is approaching, and Republican candidates are campaigning hard. I wanted to see some of the coverage on the candidates and see how it has changed since the beginning of the race. I was surprised to find Democrat and Republican congressmen working together to try and fix the budget. I watched Super Tuesday Preview on Fox News. The show began with a panel of four congressmen and women who represented the Republican Candidates. The audience was made up of “The American People”. This show struck me as something different than the usually news show because there was no yelling or degrading of a specific candidate. The audience asked questions and the panel answered the questions according to how the Candidates would. One of the questions directed to Rand Paul was about his fathers foreign policy. Rand asked the host of the show if he had thirty minuets because that is what it would take to explain where people would understand. The host replied with a “No, you only have thirty seconds actually”. This goes back to fragmenting and how the media as a whole cuts very important issues into thirty second capsules of time. This is making it where the public is missing the big picture because it is hard for them to put things together that are so fragmented. When the media fragments information it also tends to lose some of the major content. Even Rand said that he needs 30 minutes in order for people to understand. If the media spent more time on quality news instead of on the quantity of news the public would know a lot more on issues instead of surface knowledge on a lot of issues.