Presidential Election P.I.E. examples
How does media affect presidential elections? Media has the power to sway the opinion of the people according to what the politicians desire.
PIE#1 P: The media sways the truthfulness of a situation in support of the people in charge.
I: Politicians during the Vietnam War said that America was full blown winning against the Vietnamese.
E: The Vietnam war was a very interesting war considering it was really the first war that the American people could see what was happening in Vietnam because of television and media. Because of this the American people were outraged from seeing the horrors of war and what it brought and quickly started demonstrating their opinions against it. During this politicians tried to cover up the horrors of war by saying that we were winning completely and that there was no need to fear. This is an abuse of media because it making something seem like it isn’t. Eventually one reporter, Walter Cronkite, decided to discover the truth.
“CBS’s Walter Cronkite, became increasingly skeptical about the stream of official statements from Washington and Saigon that claimed we were winning the war. So Cronkite decided to go to Vietnam and see for himself. When he returned, he broadcast a special report to the nation, which Lyndon Johnson watched. Cronkite reported that the war had become a bloody stalemate and that military victory was not in the cards.“
PIE#2
P: Media causes social figures to care more about their physical appearance than they do about actual political issues.
E: During the debates between Kennedy and Nixon, Kennedy seemingly “destroyed” Nixon.“He also believed that Kennedy’s “victory” in the debates was largely a triumph of image over content.”
I: With the implement of the television presidents now have the capacity to be seen by the entire nation. This causes presidents and social figures alike to be very concerned with their physical appearance, almost as much as they should be with the problems facing with
PIE#1 P: The media sways the truthfulness of a situation in support of the people in charge.
I: Politicians during the Vietnam War said that America was full blown winning against the Vietnamese.
E: The Vietnam war was a very interesting war considering it was really the first war that the American people could see what was happening in Vietnam because of television and media. Because of this the American people were outraged from seeing the horrors of war and what it brought and quickly started demonstrating their opinions against it. During this politicians tried to cover up the horrors of war by saying that we were winning completely and that there was no need to fear. This is an abuse of media because it making something seem like it isn’t. Eventually one reporter, Walter Cronkite, decided to discover the truth.
“CBS’s Walter Cronkite, became increasingly skeptical about the stream of official statements from Washington and Saigon that claimed we were winning the war. So Cronkite decided to go to Vietnam and see for himself. When he returned, he broadcast a special report to the nation, which Lyndon Johnson watched. Cronkite reported that the war had become a bloody stalemate and that military victory was not in the cards.“
PIE#2
P: Media causes social figures to care more about their physical appearance than they do about actual political issues.
E: During the debates between Kennedy and Nixon, Kennedy seemingly “destroyed” Nixon.“He also believed that Kennedy’s “victory” in the debates was largely a triumph of image over content.”
I: With the implement of the television presidents now have the capacity to be seen by the entire nation. This causes presidents and social figures alike to be very concerned with their physical appearance, almost as much as they should be with the problems facing with