The Affordable Care Act has been a roller coaster of ups and downs and a highlight of media frenzy.
As Obamacare brought drama within Congress, caused a government shutdown and ultimately launched with a plethora of issues it has fallen on the POTUS and the media, finding new fuel for political turmoil, has jumped all over the coverage and went for the KO with President Obama.
Media has done a great job highlighting every issue that has come about and done a better job relating it to the POTUS.
The media highlighted every negative aspect of the Obamacare journey more than effectively pointing out the good aspects of it!
It seems to be the job of media to really highlight more controversy than positivity when it comes to politics. Makes it extremely difficult to trust politicians or add validity to political campaigns when there is so much negativity going on.
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by highlighting the negativity of each situation that the POTUS has encountered we find fuel for the opposition.
With Obama in his final term it is interesting how the media is supposed to be unbiased but inadvertently promotes bias between the parties especially whoever the current POTUS is.
It definitely seems as if with everything that has happened under the Obama regime lately that the media will set up the KO in any which way possible!
And that KO they are inadvertently going for is definitely a LOW BLOW!
I am not making my argument solely for Obama because it happened under Bush's regime and Clinton's regime. It is just interesting how mass media promotes some bias by always focusing on negative news coverage.
Good post regarding what the focus of the mass media really is. The name of the game for the mass media is to make money. How do they do this? By making an issue controversial to gain more viewers. They do point out the good in situations, but this is greatly overpowered by the amount of criticism they report. You are correct though that this happens with every POTUS. One of the major media sites will look only at the bad of a situation without acknowledging what is good about it. I believe that the mass media is making America even more polarized than it already is. Good post about this issue.
ReplyDeleteWith all of the ups and downs, it makes the Affordable Healthcare Act hard to follow. This is my first time buying into healthcare and things are changing everyday! I tried to compare the plan I receive at my job with the plans allotted on the website, but when I went, the website was down. I was sent an e-mail two days later saying the website was up but I was unavailable at the time to view the plans. If something is made mandatory by a tax penalty, there should not be as many hiccups and changes. It's such a headache. The media reporting on every move and change doesn't make it any better. Becoming bogged down in so many changes, I've tuned out of AHA talk and am waiting until February to find out what happened while I was tuned out.
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