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September 7 & 8

From the previous class, we watched a documentary regarding Rupert Murdoch's news organization, Fox News. It covered how unprofessional the reporters were being to the guests, as well as how fabricated and strongly biased the information was. Fox's famous catch copies are, "we report, you decide" or "the fair and balanced", but they were anything but that. 

When reporting something, the proper thing to do is to get insights into both sides of the story as well as not being biased and writing from an objective view. However, in reality, Fox is a business of propaganda. From my personal experience, I have only watched the news regarding the weather for Fox News, so it was surprising to learn just how inadequate of a news organization they are. Furthermore, I learned how they were supporters of former President Bush, and how they tried to promote him in any way possible, even when it ended up misleading their audience. Essentially, news organizations must take an objective position politically, but Fox was daring enough to completely ignore this rule and still state that the information they put out was "fair and balanced". 

I also learned about the presidential election which was Bush vs Gore, but this was the first election to have ever been decided by the supreme court. However, the American election system is controversial, since the total number of votes for a certain side does not guarantee victory. Each state has a number of electors, and for each state, whoever has the most votes wins every single elector of that state. So if the numbers were 100,000 vs 100,001, the candidate with 100,001 votes would win all of the electors. This does not make sense because there is hardly a difference in the number of votes, and it would result in disregarding the other 100,000 votes. This system is not fair and feels even rigged. I felt there was a need to improve and alter the system to accurately represent the people's votes.

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