Because we are discussing about Media in our A.P. class, I thought this would be a good article to talk about. For the people who do not know about the 2000 Presidential elections between George W. Bush(Republican) and Albert Gore (Democrat) it would be a great idea to check out the link that Ms. Blatteau has posted but to summarize the "tragedy", it was a close win between the two candidates and everyone had their eyes glued to their television to see Florida's decision that would set the fate for the president of the year 2000. It was just the matter of 25 votes to determine who was going to with the presidential race. But as soon as the media got the "results" it was declared all over the world that Albert Gore was going to win after getting all the votes form Florida but things took an uncertain turn and in the matter of minutes people were confused on who was the president because George W. Bush, at 9:45 PM, told the media that they had united all the votes in a cursory and were going too fast from the people actually counting the votes. CNN along with ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox and MSNBC were punished for making fast decision only from looking at exit polls and experts. Since this mistake CNN has promised that they will not take early decisions after looking at exit polls information and not declare anyone a winner until polls are completely closed.
Everyone says that newspapers are too old now a days but they are accurate in their news. Everything on the Internet goes up quick whether it is Facebook, Twitter or Google it is not true until it is in the papers. Not that newspaper don;t make any mistakes but as you can see that during the 2000 elections how hard the media made it for the president to be declared. So here are a few questions to ponder about. Did the way that the 2000 presidential race affect how media reports news about politics now? Are they really being careful or is our mind playing games with us? Does this tell us something about how much the Central government play a part in the elections?
In the second link that I posted above you guys will be able to see the electoral map of the 2000 elections. The third link shows the final electoral map of the 2012 elections. In the forth website you will be able to find some really cool information on the two parties and the elections because it was made for students. I found this website right from the site that Ms. Blatteau had posted for this homework.
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