Jaelyn Whiting

AP LANG: Revision Essay

TV broadcasting is the ultimate downfall of presidential elections and therefore produces the

negative influence presented upon Americans. TV has affected who is elected, how fair and accessible

and an election is, and has moved candidates from pursuing issues to pursuing images.

Tv has affected who is elected. Although "television gave a rise to the belief that a new era was

opening in public communication"…"televisions with its penetration, its wide geographic distribution

and impact provides a new, direct, between Washington and the people" (Source A). The impact

presented is the restoration of "immediate contact with political events" therefore leading the to the

audience forming a gullible relationship with the television and whatever comes out.

Tv has affected how fair and accessible an election is because of "who controls what" therefore

enhances what many of the candidates began pursuing as "issues" and their "images". in 1960, due to

"Kennedy's crisp" and "Nixon's-light colored suit, wrong makeup, and bad posture (Source C)" in which

all effects "who won the nation away from sounds to images. This is exact proof of the quality of the

images of the presidential candidates affects the accessibility of a true and fair president. The people

"who controls what" are the broadcasters in which leads to an unfair election.

The audience of televisions had become so drawn in and gullible to the information

presented that even President Lyndon Johnson had grown to make decisions based on of his

news reports. Lyndon thought that if "Walter Cronkite thought that the war was hopeless, the

American people would think so too, and the only thing left to do was to wind down". Lyndon

had later announced that " he was ending the naval bombardment in most of Vietnam". The

President of the United States had made a political decision based off a news reports. Television

had not only negatively affected American citizens but has taken over the leader of our country.

The overall message the television delivers is that "if he/she said it, it has to be true".
 The only solution to the issue of television broadcasting is for the people to go to the

elections and debates themselves. This is the only uncensored solution to hearing the truth.

News broadcast systems have admitted to it being censored because " it is a joke to call an

event like the one that transpired tonight a debate" and the only reason they are successful is

because they are "able to pull the best three minutes out of the ninety-minute event (Source

F)".